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While 54% of Americans lived in rural places in 1910, that number fell to 19 percent by 2010, Zillow reported. To revive their communities, these places are hoping that everything from cash grants to paying off student loans and giving away free land will help draw a younger generation to them.
But it's not just small towns that hope to draw more people to them with these programs. Some cities like Baltimore and even entire states like Alaska will pay you to be their newest resident.
Tribune, Kansas will pay off $15,000 of your student loans. Marne, Iowa will give you free land if you build a house that's at least 1,200 ft2 on it. Baltimore, Maryland will give you a $5,000, 5yr forgivable loan and $10,000 down payment toward rehabilitating abandoned homes.
Tempted?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by frojack on Saturday November 11 2017, @07:57PM (2 children)
And yet the city votes time and time again for MORE OF THE SAME.
Embarrassed by a gay mayor that abused children and was forced to resign? Not Seattle. They elected another gay mayor. Awaiting the inevitable scandal.
So get use to no less then 1 murder every night leading the news, get use to another war-in-the-streets May Day parade, get use to priced-out homeless living in tents under bridges and driving in with dilapidated junker mobile homes from neighboring states, and being the northern end of a heroin pipeline, because Seattle is living the liberal dream. You get what you elect.
There are 8 or 12 billionaires in Seattle who could 1) end the city's existence by moving away, or 2) entirely end the city's homelessness problem with modest tract homes served by public transit, all provided free of charge out of their pocket change.
But It was never the plan to providing affordable housing. It was always about pricing out the riff-raff, and getting them to move away so the rich could erect steel and glass where their modest homes use to be. But it seems the riff-raff doesn't want to leave.
Seattle isn't one city, its a collection of radical liberal fiefdoms running cheek by jowl like a pack of wild hogs, sucking every dollar out of the rest of the otherwise rather conservative state.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @09:47PM
Have you figured out yet why all the squirrels seem to love you?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @01:12AM
This is rather incompetent. First off, being a child molester and being gay have little to do with each other. There's no reason to believe that a former US Attorney has been molesting children and the fact that she had that job indicates that there aren't likely to be any incidents that we don't know about.
Secondly, property crimes are up, but violent crime is still markedly low for a city of the size with the amount of policing going on. There's not much reason to think either of those facts is going to change much in the near term.
As far as those billionaires go, fuck them and the horse they rode in on, they pay virtually nothing in taxes compared to what the rest of us pay. Sure, they pay a bit more in property taxes, but the sales tax is something that is the other major source of income and billionaires don't pay that much more of it. Because they pay so little in taxes, I'm curious how you think that them leaving would destroy the city. They're already not paying their fair share of the tax revenue, so, I'm unsure how their leaving would have that kind of an impact.