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In reply to the discussion: Why I think people leave Florida after five years -- not because of the hurricanes. A HOA story [View all]hunter
(38,264 posts)Around here they are one of the reasons we have homeless people living in our parks.
You know what's worse for property values than public and low income housing?
It's people living under rotten tarps along the creek and shitting in the bushes.
It's the bitter resentful alcoholic adult children of "property value" parents who can't find housing, who end up hoarding guns and spewing QAnon shit from mom's illegal garage conversion.
That's why many older white people flee to fortified micro-managed adult communities. They are escaping the children and communities they themselves fucked up.
I'd much rather live next door to a fully functional multi-generational Mexican family, grandma taking care of the kids, parents working hard, cousins living in a spare bedroom, people working on cars in their driveway... than any failed white U.S.A. "nuclear" family.
Housing the homeless is actually a federal problem because many people migrate to places where they are less likely to die of exposure, are able to find food in the dumpsters, and not be killed or maimed by hostile locals. Establishing comfortable living wages for young adults is another government responsibility.
I grew up in affluent 99 44/100 percent pure white U.S.A.. Leaving that hell was the best thing I ever did. I actually feel sorry for my classmates who were "successful" and became part of that community. They seem lacking in many ordinary life experiences. But I feel much worse for those who were killed by it. A shocking number of my high school classmates are dead by suicide, drugs, car accidents, heart attacks and alcohol. But the "property values" in that place are among the highest in California. Very ordinary working class homes of the sort I grew up in sell for a million dollars.
Sorry for the rant, it's not directed at you personally.