The average American doesn’t vacation. In the past ten years, the only travel I’ve done was to attend two funerals and one wedding. Vacations are for the rich, and nice areas are only for the rich. We secretly love walkable towns like we secretly love Buckingham Palace, we like to dream that one day, we’ll be able to afford it too.
The only reason my town is affordable is because it’s shitty, and improving it would price me out of living here, so I don’t want to improve it.
I would like to point out that the likes of walmart and amazon have, like the mosquitos they are, sucked dry the money that used to circulate around smaller towns, and that might otherwise be used for a swim center or something.
I say this because step number one to fixing these places is bringing the money back.
Step two might be price locking rent and/or just taking land out of the hands of landlords and housing firms.
The average American doesn’t vacation. In the past ten years, the only travel I’ve done was to attend two funerals and one wedding. Vacations are for the rich, and nice areas are only for the rich. We secretly love walkable towns like we secretly love Buckingham Palace, we like to dream that one day, we’ll be able to afford it too.
The only reason my town is affordable is because it’s shitty, and improving it would price me out of living here, so I don’t want to improve it.
I would like to point out that the likes of walmart and amazon have, like the mosquitos they are, sucked dry the money that used to circulate around smaller towns, and that might otherwise be used for a swim center or something.
I say this because step number one to fixing these places is bringing the money back.
Step two might be price locking rent and/or just taking land out of the hands of landlords and housing firms.