Interesting video, but it's all from the pov of the city's tax revenue and nothing else. Taking the first example, if they don't build the new food complex and keep the old one, less people will want to live in that city, and eventually the tax revenue will go down. Plenty of ghost towns around me that prove that point, you have to stay modern or you go under.
As far as the suburb part, if those high income areas spend all their money downtown, then tax revenue downtown goes up but the source of money is still the suburbs. You have two sources of tax revenue in downtown (business + residents), but only one in the suburbs. So naturally tax revenue is lower in suburbs, but without them the downtown businesses wouldn't survive at all. It's a relationship, and it's odd they don't address this point. Also in the southwest there are plenty of suburb-only cities that grow rapidly without a downtown district playing major part.
"Cities" is the wrong word here, it's really "downtown" or "city center" areas. The center of activities will move outwards toward the suburbs, but stay in the wider metro area. This has been slowly happening for a while in many (most ?) metro areas, but the pandemic will certainly expedite things.
I read an article a few years ago that showed that cities make the most money off of the poorest areas because they are the densest.
It turns out the French had it more right when they levied taxes based upon Street front length instead of area.
The length of the road, sidewalk, street lighting, water pipe, electrical lines, telephone lines, etc. are all increased with wide properties. Perversely, the wealthier homeowner is subsidized by the poorer apartment dweller.
Sure. But if you are Seattle or San Francisco or any other number of examples, the actual city boundaries are quite small. So while you pay for city services that the larger region might get to enjoy (transit, housing authority, etc), your funding pool to draw from might still be shrinking.
Yes, but very limited. They are only allowed to ask "are you a US citizen", and walk a dog around the car. I've never had one take more than 60 seconds in either AZ or CA.
I'm a tall middle aged middle class white man and I had no issue with any police check in my life either.
I think there are demographics that have different experiences than mine, especially when there's a dog involved (who can provide any excuse necessary:)
I don't believe police at checkpoints in Canada are walking dogs around the car or asking whether we're citizens or not, it's just a matter of whether or not someone's had drinks, I'm fine with it
In Australia I've been stopped many dozens of times for a "random breath test" where they stop every car and make you blow into the device to check blood alcohol.
As a Canadian, in Australia, I was surprised by the random breath test. That is not allowed at check stops in Canada unless there is another reason to suspect you have been drinking (smell of alcohol, slurring words, that sort of thing).
It's not about ignoring editors, it's about taking constructive feedback, and the ratio of constructive feedback to noise is very low in complex projects. In those projects, people that aren't heavily invested typically don't know enough about the wider project to make valuable contributions.
> I've never understood why it's somehow considered more 'consensus'-oriented than say FPTP. Biden won his election with 51% of the vote...
Odd example here. That election wasn't FPTP, it just happened to work out that way.
Overall people don't think FPTP is consensus because you have to vote pragmatically for people you don't necessarily like. Therefore the winner is not the consensus "favorite" choice of everyone who voted.
I get around 60 calls a day, many of them are repeat attempts. T-Mobile's app blocks 99% of them. I get around a dozen texts a day for the real estate nonsense. Messenger does a good job of marking those as spam.
I've tried a number of times to get identifiable information from those folks with little success. Friend of mine went through the process and met with someone on site at the property he was contacted about. He first had to let them send an inspector. The inspector was paid by a proxy which was not linked to the company that wanted to buy the property. The person he met with on site representing the property buyer was a lawyer, and that's who he had to go after. He ended up getting the $1500 after all of that effort, and told me the lawyer laughed and said the cost was just passed onto his client. It was a lot of effort.
Yes. I worked for a major newspaper and would guess that all the people in editorial make up less than 50% of the staff. You have business, accounting, tech, delivery, support, sales, security etc...
