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Not quite NIMBy if they're

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 01:41:33 +0000

In reply to This is also a sort of NIMBY

Not quite NIMBy if they're just asking for resources to handle it, rather than being absolute refuseniks.

Still, wherr's out quota system, our immigration plan? Even Disney has an idea who's coming to Magic Mountain that day.

This is also a sort of NIMBY

artappraiser — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:15:42 +0000

In reply to Infrastructure Madness: NIMBY 2.0

This is also a sort of NIMBY issue in my anecdotal experience. They are horrified at what the Trump admin. is doing at the border, but it's a different story if the alternative is a lot of low income immigrants with lots of kids to educate in their back yard. Have heard from a friend, several family members, and acquaintances a little pissed off by what happens to the local schools with a substantial acute influx of immigrant kids without much previous education and with poor family circumstance as to being ready and able to learn. Add a whole bunch of "special needs kids" with uneducated parents. And who is going to pay for it?

Another must-read piece by @mirjordan, whose coverage on the immigration beat is nuanced, comprehensive, and absolutely vital. https://t.co/IVbOCkKt2w
— Jose A. Del Real (@jdelreal) July 9, 2019

i.e.from the above

Last year, the Palm Beach County school district enrolled 4,555 Guatemalan students in K through 12, nearly 50 percent more than two years earlier. Many of the students come from the country’s remote highlands and speak neither Spanish nor English. The number of elementary school students in K through 5 more than doubled to 2,119 in that same period.

Or in Ossining NY for another example, here is the effect:

[....] it is easy to assume that Brookside Elementary School in Ossining is a stereotypical well-funded suburban school. Property taxes in the county are higher than anywhere else in the country, and the population is still increasing, just like it was in the 1960s when the fictional Sally Draper of “Mad Men” fame attended Brookside.

Things are very different now though, according to Ray Sanchez, superintendent of the Ossining Union Free School District. Rising enrollment meant the school library was split in two in order to create a new classroom. Students learning English as a second language study in a space behind a curtain as cafeteria workers prepare lunch on the other side. A combination of increasing enrollment, rising poverty and more special-needs students mean that the district needs more state funding to keep up, Sanchez said. “Those three things in my opinion should be driving dollars to help address the various needs that exist,” he said. The $85,000 funding increase in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed state budget is not enough for the district’s six schools, according to Sanchez, who has joined with other superintendents to form a group called the Harmed Suburban Five [....]

just ran across a bit of bias

artappraiser — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 06:50:23 +0000

In reply to An important article topic,

just ran across a bit of bias confirmation for myself here :

Although the creative class in the United States is largely urban, many rural counties also have high shares of knowledge, professional, and artistic workers. #citylabarchive https://t.co/H113t6vXCI
— CityLab (@CityLab) July 4, 2019

An important article topic,

artappraiser — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 18:59:35 +0000

In reply to Infrastructure Madness: NIMBY 2.0

An important article topic, there should be more like this!

In the end, I foresee a trend of lotsa people who don't cotton to the "density" thing for various and sundry reasons moving out to "gentrify" the countryside. Ironically, this was actually the occupation of the original "gentry". What ever happened to that promise of telecommuting anyway? Fuck your mass transit, cubicles, jail cell apartments and self-driving cars, if you got money you'll live in the country. Or if you don't, squat in an abandoned suburban McMansion? The best laid plans of gerrymanderers, all for naught eventually?