Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses
by JeremyNT on Thursday March 09, 2023 @08:22AM
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> What’s wrong with people sorting into places that are culturally compatible? After all plenty of people move to Paris for the culture.
This was literally the gp's thesis, that it's easier to just leave than to try and improve things (for whatever your value of improve is).
I agree it's the logical thing to do, but when definitions of what services a government should provide vary greatly and people sort where they live based on them, it's going to lead to strange results.
> A common refrain I hear when talking to people is that they wanted to move somewhere that wasn't so "woke."
What’s wrong with people sorting into places that are culturally compatible? After all plenty of people move to Paris for the culture.
> They either do not care about the poor public transit/services/infrastructure/schools/etc or they do not care enough to outweigh the benefits.
Aside from schools, most people either don’t use those things or it doesn’t make a difference. Oftentimes it’s an upgrade from the utterly dysfunctional alternative where they came from. (The efficiency of my traditionally red county’s limited public services was a nice change of pace from DC.)