Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"?

lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s jobs. They’re safe. They have stuff to do. Some kind of reason.

  Nah, it’s just more affordable than most of the major cities up north. As someone who’s lived in Dallas/Fort Worth, it’s definitely not the safest place I’ve lived. It’s ranked moderate/high in violent crimes on a national scale.

  As far as Texas goes, San Antonio and Austin have a lot more to do than Dallas and especially Fort Worth. I wouldn’t really even say there’s a really competitive job market outside of oil and grass. Most of the people who recently moved to the area did so after work from home became normalized.

  It’s really just because it’s a larger city that people can still afford to purchase a home in, and that’s about it.

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• yarr@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I clicked through and had to go to a second linked article(!) for the top 5. The #1 is “Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas”, which is pretty much a blue city now.

  This doesn’t really support your claim that “they are all red”. Also, we call a “blueish spot surrounded by red” a blue city.

  From what I am learning about in this thread is there isn’t really the idea of a “red city”, so when people talk shit about “blue cities” they are just talking about city life in general. There does not appear to be any very large cities filled with Republicans.

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  • lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess. I still think there’s a difference between DFW and, say, the Twin Cities. You won’t catch me living in Texas.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  blueish spots surrounded by red.

  That’s the point. Fash don’t live in cities. It disturbs their wacky ideology with humans and reality. Fash stay out in the burbs with their privilege and delusions.

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  • lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But still, the cities on the list are all cities in red states. That’s weird.

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    • kayohtie@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As someone living in a red state, every city here is referred to as a “blue city”, whether people are moving to it or not. State color has shit all to do with it and tends to be how much did we make the assumption land votes.

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• myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Myrtle Beach is on that list. People are moving there for the meth and racism.

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  • lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hmm. That’s an interesting theory.

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    • myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I live in one of the cities on that list. It is definitely a thing. People can move here and pay cash for homes, after selling their homes in an extremely high COL area.

      But this city isn’t a red city by any means. It’s just another blue city in a red state. Which a lot of the ones on that list are.

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    • 13igTyme@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not really a theory, when it’s been proven true. Many retirees are moving to low CoL areas because their social security and or retirement funds can’t keep up. Lower income people will move if they are able to.

      There are jobs that pop up in these areas, but on average the income is significantly less. For example Tennessee will pay new grad nurses $22 an hour. That’s one of the lowest wages for a bedside nurse. Not enough to live in the city where a hospital is located. I think it was Alabama that passed a state law that prohibited cities from raising the minimum wage for jobs in the city. Jobs in most of these areas pay poverty wages.

      I used to live in Florida and when looking at the average the CoL is lower than my new state Oregon. Yet after moving and living here for a year I pay less on car and home insurance, property taxes, and no sales tax. Sure I might pay a tiny bit more in income tax but my salary is 30% higher for the same job. My wife’s is 45% higher for the same job.

      Not to mention “average” means nothing when rural hick areas are lowering the entire state. Many parts of Florida have a higher cost than most other cities.

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