Re:Australia Mourns the End of Its Car Manufacturing Industry
by closeparen on Friday October 20, 2017 @09:49PM
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Hm? Detroit ungentrified, housing became affordable, artist communities flourished, over-policing went away, corrupting corporate influences and (especially) real estate developers vanished. Detroit is everything every growing liberal city claims to want and writes public policy to work towards.
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Re:Australia Mourns the End of Its Car Manufacturing Industry
by nate_meurer on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:13PM
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Wasn't there a bankruptcy in there somewhere?
> "corrupting corporate influences and (especially) real estate developers vanished"
... and were replaced with a level of government corruption (and incompetence) that would have been funny if it weren't so sad.
Re:Australia Mourns the End of Its Car Manufacturing Industry
by emodendroket on Friday October 20, 2017 @10:29PM
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Yeah, that doesn't sound like an argument I actually want to engage with.
Re:Australia Mourns the End of Its Car Manufacturing Industry
by gozur88 on Saturday October 21, 2017 @10:03PM
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"Ungentrified"? Is that a euphemism for a place you'd want to live turning into the kind of place where you're afraid to go out of town for the weekend because all your stuff will be gone when you get back?
Re:Australia Mourns the End of Its Car Manufacturing Industry
by emodendroket on Sunday October 22, 2017 @02:11PM
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He's trying to be cute and say anyone who complains about rising rents is trying to turn their city into Detroit.
Re:Australia Mourns the End of Its Car Manufacturing Industry
by closeparen on Monday October 23, 2017 @01:30PM
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Anyone who complains that their city is too attractive to the (upper) middle class and thinks that public policy should seek to motivate people with good jobs to stay the hell away, yeah.
I’ll complain about rising rents too, but from a place of “we need more housing” and not “people need to stop trying to live here.”