Lots of input, much of it good, some of it more on the bullying side by @Phil
What did I just stumble onto you thinking this is Reddit and you just downvote people without contributing anything productive to the conversation? #Brave. This is an example of the toxic comments by some on here. Gross. Grow up. Middle finger right back at you, bud, I guess? Why didn’t our community flag his post? Definitely makes this an unfriendly forum sometimes but tit for tat?
I don’t want that either, but it’s already happening with business booming and construction investments happening all around Raleigh and the 'burbs (North Hills, Fenton, Wake Forest) for a number of reasons. Easier to put together a large parcel of land to develop, more affluent customers closer and in greater quantities (in their McMansions) than in downtown Raleigh. I mean why would Kaine or Hines NOT develop where they are lately?
TBH, This sounds like Bernie Sanders politics, but even worse. I’m NOT on board with this playing Robin Hood and taking things away from private corporations to…do something I’m not sure what? I’m guessing that somehow the lower profits mean it helps someone poor somehow? “Destabilizing corporate profits” ? Really easy to say about other people’s money.
You’re free to risk your own capital, start a business, and “destabilize” your own profits if you want to give it away to others for their living expenses. But you’re not taking MY business’s profits or penalizing me for the risk I took when I started MY business. Marxist Socialist much? No thanks. Not in this country.
It really IS that easy. But much of the reason people don’t change is not having the self discipline to better themselves. Many want to take shortcuts and aren’t willing to do what it takes (the whole thing with minimum wage needing to become a “living wage” bs and so on.) If someone’s job is not paying them enough? Have an aspiration of a better paying career? Find out what skills you’re missing and get the training you need. Nobody is making you keep a job that doesnt pay enough, and there are MILLIONS of jobs in the US going unfilled right now. I’m in the business of career counseling and actually matching people up for things like this, so I do know what I’m talking about. If you need somehing you don’t have to get a better higher paying job, you go to school, get training (much of it free, online), do an apprenticeship, an internship, anything. If you’re stuck in a job that your expenses exceed your income or prevent you from saving, there are plenty of other jobs. “But I want to work downtown” they might say. “I like the 400H lifestyle.” There are plenty of jobs other than downtown, but just like the rest of us, you have to make compromises and see what your priorities are.
Anyway, I still don’t get why people have to live close to their downtown jobs and expect it to be a) affordable and b) when it’s not affordable, that it’s someone else’s responsibility to make it affordable somehow. Middle finger me all you want, @Phil but better yet, contribute to the dialogue vs bring it down.