Gentrification...

I used to be involved in that. Go into DC, buy a crackhouse for $800.00 at tax sale. Kick the squatting crackheads out (if you consider that displacement of poor people, I can live with that). Put $10,000.00 in materials and a few weeks of labor into it and list it for $350,000.00. That was back in the day when I was single and owned my own company and the money flowed like water. Now I'm married and a wage earner and disillusioned. Life runs in cycles.

 

don't worry. it's all gonna be okay. you're gonna live and die just like you were going to do before. i'd always lived in questionable neighborhoods, and i'm fine.

 

i never said they were better, just that the poor fifty mexicans dont belong.

 

It's a free country (in theory anyway). Why do you have right to determine who lives next door? You don't own the house or the land.

 

this IS a democracy. the neighborhood should get to vote.

 

so, now we not only have to find the financing, find the right house, make payments on it, but we also have to be approved by the neighbourhood board to move in? Based on what? personality, monthly income, marital status, sexual preference, heigh, weight, aesthetics? That's FUCKING ridiculous. If I want to live somehwere and I do nothing illegal, my neighbours should not have the right to determine whether or not I get to live there. What about rental areas? Does the whole block of apartments vote on one person every time a new place is rented out?

that's ridiculous. Just ignore them, or keep a close enough eye on them that you can call the cops if they do something illegal. They are doing nothing to harm you, nothing to justify this anger you feel towardst hem.

 

This country is NOT a democracy. You've fallen for the propaganda.

Besides, what you're proposing is not democracy. You're actually proposing socialism. Public control of private property.

 

well, whatever the fuck kind of govt it is, ten people per bedroom is not healthy, and the houses were never designed for that in the first place.

 

then see if you can contact the health inspector about it, but you don't have the right ot say who does and doesn't live in your neighbourhood, only the right to intervene if they are doing something against the law.

 

Buy a highrise condo in any upperclass city neighborhood in the US and yeah, that's exactly what you have to do. Manhattan, Georgetown, Portland, Boston, Miami, etc. You can go through all of that shit and still get shut out by the condo board.

Welcome to reality. Who and what you are matters more than how much money you make. Which, if you really look at it, is how it should be. But you know us silly hairless apes, we pervert everything.

Speaking of perversions, got any new pics of your feet?

 

yeah, but that's a condo, that's different than a bunch of houses in a neighbourhood. You live in the same building, just in different units. Houses are seperate units - you should not have the right to veto someone moving in

dude, you're on the internet. if you want feet pictures use the damn search function instead of hustling 20 year olds for 'em, mmk? mmk then.

 

I don't know about there, but here it's cyclical. When the 50 mexicans move into the more up-scale neighborhood the up-scale neighbors begin moving out. Then more mexicans move in, and more neighboors move out. As the poor areas are rebuilt the nice areas become filled with minorities, ignored, and become run down eventually. That's when they begin the process again. . .

 

Like it or not, many of the Mexicans here in Indiana are economical geniuses. They may work at McDonalds, but a lot of them own nicer properties than some fairly well-off people I know. Here's their deal here: Five families take a 3-4 bedroom house. Every of age, capable family member works their finger to the bone. I've seen a group of Mexicans buy up five houses in one very decent neighborhood in a matter eight years. Three out of the five are currently paid off. As each house gets paid off the family that's been with the group the longest gets the house, another family gets introduced, or brought in, and they move on to the next house. There are a lot of dumb spics around here, but those are definately out numbered by hard working mexicans with a goal. Who cares if they're willing to sacrifice comfort for a long term goal?

 

A home is still a home, single or multi unit.

And lighten up, I was kidding about the feet pics... dang.

 

Don't mind her... she's just sexually frustrated right now

 

well, there is that (though I have a daaaate in monday, yay!)

seriously, I'm pms'ing my ass off, I'm not used to it. and I'm going ot shut up now, because no one wants to know about that, but it is my excuse (damn pill)

 

Awwwwww.... We forgive you.... and by we I mean I'll make the other guy if he doesn't agree

 

Theres a good amount of gentrification going on here too.

Also, Manassas, VA just passed a law making it illegal for people to live in the same house who are not members of each others family.. That may sound extreme, but I grew up in northern virginia, and I can really understand the frustration. These people move in, and since there are 45 people in one house, each persons rent is like $100 a month. This means a lot of them can be lazy and not work much at all, but rather sit around drinking all day and working on their cars on the side of the road. One of my friends lived in a neighborhood like this and a drunk hispanic ran his truck into their living room, and the house across the street burned to the ground because some kids were playing with a lighter in bed.

One of my dads friends is a plumber, and he says inside these houses, they have fold down cots lining the hallways.

The thing that bothers me about it is that they often dont maintain their property, leave broken cars and shit everywhere, and it makes the property values drop. So the person who gets up and busts his ass everyday, spends hours in the yard, etc. is the one who gets fucked.

Its a double edged sword though, because I dont like the government telling people what they can and cant do on their property.

 

You could always sue for damages in a civil court. I agree with you though. People who think they have a right to tell others how to live really get under my skin.

 

ihmurria, I forgive you. I mean, at my age, with three marriages under my belt, I should have known better.

Concealed Culture, there should be laws in NoVA stricter than that. I work there on a regular basis, will be in Falls Church, Alexandria and Annandale tomorrow. It's overcrowded, overbuilt and overPRICED. They should ban construction anywhere in VA north of Kings Dominion. OTOH ManAss is the epicenter of redneckedness. It's only cool when Journey plays Nissan Pavillion.