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Anarcho-Crab t1_ix8hi0i wrote

Reply to comment by rockybalBOHa in City reaches 300th homicide for 8th year in a row by Maxcactus

This take is disgusting. Just push poor people out of sight and out of mind so you don't have to think of the human toll our economic system has created??? Ignore any continued crime caused by poverty in whatever neighborhoods you've exiled us to? Remove the generational Baltimoreans who actually built this town and take advantage of our work? Fuck that.

And reminder, you want gentrification but who make your stupid ass coffee or artisanal pizza or stock the shelves at anthropology? Oh right, under paid folks. I'm not about to let my city turn into some bubble of wealthy people where we lose our city's culture. Kick rocks.

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Appropriate-Lab-5015 t1_ix8r2fv wrote

They get pushed to middle river, essex, whitearsh/perry hall, parkville, timonium, cockeysville, owings mills, etc.

Lots of section 8 in Baltimore county now.

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Cheomesh t1_ix95h3i wrote

>timonium

Really? I'm up there a time and again but it didn't seem low income to me.

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Xhosa1725 t1_ix8lr5r wrote

Given the massive food deserts in the poorest parts of our city, the argument can be made that residents would be better off leaving. And I say that as Price Rite just announced they're closing the SoWebo location in a few weeks, leaving thousands of people without access to decent food.

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Anarcho-Crab t1_ix8ngr0 wrote

I'd really rather spend the rest of my days fighting to get affordable grocery stores and community gardens in our communities as well as jobs then leave. My moms family have been Baltimoreans since the start of the 1800s, we arent leaving no matter how hard this shit gets.

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Xhosa1725 t1_ix99ap9 wrote

Yes, of course. You're exactly right. I guess from my perspective I just want to see people be able to live comfortably with affordable access to quality food. In some cases, that isn't possible without leaving though. I don't want to see your mother's family leave either but I also don't want to see them struggle just for the sake of staying, if there are better alternatives out there.

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rockybalBOHa t1_ix9y3xt wrote

A lot of people living in the city would have a much better quality of life living somewhere else. Hence the decline in population in poor neighborhoods. It's unfortunate, but part of the cycle many cities experience.

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