JaxBratt

JaxBratt t1_ivu33ms wrote

Reply to comment by Vermonter623 in Advice by asdfg6672

Yeah, I don’t think people really grasp that loop. They act as if we just build more houses and roll out the welcome mat it’ll be magically filled only with the needed professions and our problems will be miraculously solved.

Where I’m at some are itching to put in a major new housing development they claim will somehow solve housing issues but seem to fail to grasp that the teachers and nurses and tradesmen who can’t afford the dilapidated old houses on the market will suddenly be able to afford the brand new construction. They also fail to grasp that they can’t stop those really contributing to our housing issues who will only buy up the new supply. They further fail to grasp that our schools are already full and short staffed, so where are the new staff coming from and who’s paying to build the new schools?

The “answers” are myopic and simplistic sUpPlY vs DEmAnD and tax base bullshit fed to them by the fat cat capitalist, investors, and developers who don’t give two shits about our community and won’t be around to help trying to solve the extra problems their “solution” created.

Slow and steady wins the race. No reason to jump on the short sighted fad train and rush into more headaches. I’ve NEVER seen more development of that type improve a community and I’ve never seen it play out as promised.

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JaxBratt t1_iuww46h wrote

Reply to Another fake foliage pic from a big influencer by Twombls

and then you have the dim witted lemmings who are influenced by such stupid virtual fantasy shit going on and on about how “obsessed” they are with a place some of us actually call home and grow quite tired of such nonsense when they do show up and expect a Disney world experience and act like all of our sole purpose here is to serve and accommodate them… and oh what a joy it is when they stay longer than a weekend

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JaxBratt t1_itlojqh wrote

Reply to comment by link0612 in This past Saturday, Salem was full by 11 a.m. Here's what it's like to live there in October. by zsreport

As a person past and currently living in a more tourist-centric area the problem is that many tourists treat areas as if it’s a resort/amusement park where everybody is there to serve and accommodate them and that their good time on their vacation trumps the daily lives of those actually living and working there, especially those of us who have nothing to do with the service or hospitality industry.

Second, it grows old fighting crowds of leisure lovers when you’re just trying to live your normal grind knowing that while some of those schmucks money is helping your local economy, far too much is flowing right back out to non local investors and corporations. The old trickle down bullshit trying to justify why we should all tolerate being shit on and disrespected by entitled shits on holiday is tired and thin.

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JaxBratt t1_itby81c wrote

Reply to And, sadly, with leaf peepers, comes covid by Unique-Public-8594

How is this data even being collected anymore? I have a hard time assigning any real meaning to any covid data at this point when there’s essentially zero tracing or individualized data collection going on. As I’ve said before, when I got it in the spring the department of health had zero interest in it so I get that they might be doing some representative sampling of waste water and such but seriously knock it off trying to make strict and specific conclusions from such extrapolations.

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