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this has been happening for quite a while. it's mostly because liberal whites, while they love to use minorities for votes, actually hate being around minorities. so they move into black neighborhoods and price black folk out of their homes.
this has been happening for quite a while. it's mostly because liberal whites, while they love to use minorities for votes, actually hate being around minorities. so they move into black neighborhoods and price black folk out of their homes.
I'm ready to retire and want to be in an urban center for all the noise, crime and all that -- and conveniences. Easy access.....
I love city life. It isn't just young people that choose city life.
If you don't like city life -- it doesn't make you a better human being, or smarter -- it just makes you....wait for it.......DIFFERENT.
And guess what different is not better just different.
Enjoy your life and stop judging others for goodness sake.
I could not agree more. There is thread after thread of people taking the moral high ground because they live in the _________.
To each their own. I love visiting the city. Its a 24 hour a day show. Great varieties of food. Museums, zoos, etc.
I love to visit, I just couldn't live there.
Where I lived I never locked my doors. If I did my neighbors had a key just in case. Fresh air and a different kind of show 24 hours a day. I had deer and wild turkeys. I had Pheasant and Eagles and Hawks. My closest neighbor was about 150 yards away. We all looked out for each other and took care of each other. We all knew each other's kids. My kids grew up loving their neighbors like aunts, uncles and grand parents. All of my kids are minorities and those country folks loved them like their own, because they were their own. Everyone had a massive garden and grew their own veggies. That's country life. It isn't perfect, the new generation has brought Meth, and heroine to small town America. That's unfortunate.
My son has my house now and he expanded the garden from 1/4 acre to a half acre. He donates veggies to the meals on wheels for the elderly. He also grows a ton of strawberries. He and the neighbor's grand daughter split the profits LOL.
Haven't young folks been moving to the big city for years.
I hear that's why some of those farmers are having issues...them young 'uns just don't want to shovel manure and grow things.
Not a new problem if you are up to date on reality.
But for you folks thinking this is something new.....y'all need to do some reading or something because boy are you out of touch with reality.
All smart comments aside.
Suburbs were created by who? Pre-baby boomers -- us baby boomers bought into the crap. Seriously -- whose idea was it to commute for 45 minutes...not our kids. They know better. What a stupid way to spend a couple of hours a day going back and forth to work. So our kids are smarter -- choosing to live close to their places of work and play. And we fools keep telling ourselves they are making the mistake.
Exactly. Long Island was a post-WW2 hotbed for suburbanization and Phoenix, AZ is currently one. Metro Phoenix, AZ is actually a LOT like Long Island, NY during the 40's and 50's though Long Island really didn't sub-divisions like AZ has. Lots of road expansions and upgrades to existing highways due to an expanding population. Expanding population in AZ is why many think AZ might turn purple in the next 10 years and why Martha McSally lost her senate race in November (she lost bigly in urban and suburban Maricopa county but won rural districts.) What I noticed in my time is that businesses aren't really opening up shop let alone good paying jobs in the burbs (even in AZ) but rather the city. Jobs is a HUGE factor, in where you live especially when they aren't the best paying. Wages are getting better but only if you are highly skilled or have a very specialized discipline. Many employers are still low-balling and acting like it is the recession despite the recession being over and the job market having a fairly low unemployment rate.
As for softening of the youth, this is nothing new. In some way each and every generation is "softer" than the one before it. I'm sure people bemoaned the boomers in 1970 for being something that the generation in power didn't like. This includes being soft. Sometime around boomers/gen-X it became easier and far more acceptable to not handiman your own things but rather have someone else do it. In some way technology has made this worse and better. Better in that you can run YouTube tutorials but at the same time technology has made it far more advance to do a number of things, namely with cars.
I have met lot of Millenial's who commute and live in typical suburbs have family drive cars an hour to work. Many could careless about environment they drive big trucks, or fullsize SUV's. In every generation there are all types of people you can't just generalize a group of people by the dates they were born. It may see like this to you because you live in cites see lot of young people zipping around on scooters. I see same young people driving lifted trucks in rural parts of the country belching out black smoke at a prius waiting at a stop light.
To be near cultural and entertainment amenities, they like walkable neighborhoods, suburbs are too quiet and boring (if not too conservative), diversity of personalities and lifestyles (not just race, orientation, identity, etc), more openness to the non-mainstream (which makes them feel less constrained from being their real authentic selves), car-centric culture creates long commutes and pumps more crap in the air relative to living close to the city center.
They are too lazy to drive long distances and find more interesting scenery in city center to snap selfies of themselves.
They are too lazy to drive long distances and find more interesting scenery in city center to snap selfies of themselves.
You certainly lived up to your ID name with this post ....
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