about flint

[questionseverything]

watching the town hall

they are saying there are NO grocery stores in flint?

no nurses in the schools?

wtf

[valerief]

1. Right. I'd read before about the no grocery stores but this was the first I heard about

the no school nurses. Well, there's a district nurse for all of Flint but that's it.

Flint: America's Skinflinted City

This is what happens when critics of "big govt" get in power. They poison/kill everyone working class.

[questionseverything]

3. how can a city of 100,000 people not have a grocery?

where do they go for food?

[valerief]

4. Probably other cities/towns. They probably did have them, but then

they moved out when the area became depressed, I imagine.

[questionseverything]

7. we need to get them an aldi's

food stamps go twice as far there...they are more economical than walmart

and they pay pretty well

i am just shocked...these kids are going to need really good nutrition and now it turns out everyone in flint is on a "food dessert"

[valerief]

11. Debbie Stabenow is talking about getting a grocery store in North Flint.

Aldi's is a good idea.

[questionseverything]

15. in my town there are 125,000

and i can list at least 12 real groceries off the top of my head

aldi's offers the best price by far tho

[valerief]

17. There's an Aldi's a few miles from me, but I go to Market Basket (there are 3 near me)

or Hannaford's (a couple near me). I'm from the northeast and supported the Market Basket customer strike in 2014 so they could keep their CEO (instead of being sold off and becoming another pricey and crappy chain). They, too, have great prices, thanks to their CEO. Employees also get paid well and are devoted. They're a model for a successful American business.

If Aldi's was closer, I'd go there, too. When I went there (once), I didn't understand all the different brand names. Then I came home and did a little research. I found it's a European chain and the brand names are just exclusive to Aldi's and are not inferior.

[niyad]

6. flint is one of the food deserts--of which there are many in this bestest country in the world.

USDA Defines Food Deserts

Food deserts are defined as parts of the country vapid of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas. This is largely due to a lack of grocery stores, farmers’ markets, and healthy food providers.

[niyad]

8. the nine worst urban food deserts in US

http://newsone.com/1540235/americas-worst-9-urban-food-deserts/

[questionseverything]

14. 34 square miles

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 34.06 square miles (88.21 km2), of which, 33.42 square miles (86.56 km2) is land and 0.64 square miles (1.66 km2) is water.[5] Flint lies just to the northeast of the Flint hills. The terrain is low and rolling along the south and east sides, and flatter to the northwest.

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i know there are many places without easy access to quality groceries but 34 square miles of no real groceries is mind boggling,especially with 100,000 built in customers

[hollysmom]

2. Budget cutting.

I grew up in a nice suburban school where there was a school nurse in every building, but my sister raised her kids in the south, so 30 years ago there was not a nurse in every school they had visiting days or could be called in an emergency. School libraries are also a thing of the past inmost schools, as are cafeterias, etc.

Asto grocery stores - what they mean is there are probably neighborhood stores, I used to shop in one when I lived in what I called an upper slum. The problem is that half the food is bad, you have to pick carefully and when I sent my husband for butter, it was rancid, I had to shop he didn't know better. It was more expensive than a store, but to go to like a shoprite, I needed a car and I worked in NYC and lived in a bus suburb, so I didn't have a car. sometimes I would walk with my cart to shop at the A&P which was very small for that brand, but it was just a mile away. Sometimes my mother would drive over and take me shopping in a big store.

[questionseverything]

5. so unless they have transportation they have to pay twice as much?

the school nurse thing hits close to home...i have a diabetic grandchild and that school nurse is very important to us

[hollysmom]

10. You pay more and get less nutritious food and less choice.

Now in my nice suburban/urban house, I can walk to a good shoprite, I know the owner, he lives near here and before things can turn or if fruit gets a bruise, he donates it. he donates a lot of food. You can't buy dented cans here they all get donated - he is a good man, and in the summer we have a weekly farmers market near my house. No car necessary near me, but limited affordable housing as well,

[awoke_in_2003]

13. Ain't that America? nt

[Siwsan]

9. I don't believe there are any big chain grocery stores in the City of Flint

There are smaller stores that are, of course, more expensive. There are bigger grocery stores in the surrounding areas, although several of the larger ones closer to the more 'in need' areas have closed, recently, too.

If you want to go to, say, a Kroger or Meijer, or even a Walmart, and don't have a car, you have to take the bus, which is REALLY inconvenient for big shopping trips.

[questionseverything]

16. even in my town,people have to take the bus sometimes but

we don't have to travel to another city to shop

[Stinky The Clown]

12. Its worse than a plantation

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. Don't worry: the trolliest troll will tell you people should just move away

Flint is over, says the troll. Tax base, something something. Just leave, last 100,000 people. Flint in kaput.

If you think this isn't something that troll assholes say on Dem boards, think again.