The Crazy, It's Out There!

[GeauxHomeLittleD]

We are being suffocated out here. I just got the local paper and it announced another estate about to break ground. The only thing halfway decent about this one is that it will only have 78 homes, none on less than one acre, versus the 44,000 postage stamp lots that is already in the making.

When I was a kid, I dreamt about growing up and living in the city. One year of city life was enough to make me aware that city life is not for me. There must be some truth in the old adage, "You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl."

I hope that my time on this planet will come to an end before we are completely consumed by progress. I could leave, but where would I go were it will not be just another case of rinse and repeat.

Running is not the answer, because the developers keep on developing. They won't stop until they have taken every inch.

Right about now, Elysium is starting to look real damn good.

Recently our city was listed as one of the top 10 places to live in the US by some big publication. I assure you they were bribed extremely well to include us on that list. During covid our city started getting overrun with people from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Then during the "protests" they bussed in thousands upon thousands of homeless people- giving them free food, drinks, clothes and a little cash to join in the "protests" but afterwards were just left here without resources and no means to go anywhere else so they remain. Currently we are being overrun with "migrants" and surprisingly people from Florida who have been priced out of places to live there- which is causing housing prices to skyrocket here and is pricing out the locals. 

Even as rents keep rising and rising (ours has risen by about $300 in the past 3 years for a one bedroom efficiency) it is still cheaper than other big cities and so their denizens are flocking here like geese. Add to the mix that our government is willing to pay whatever they have to to house the "migrants" and the rents will continue to rise. Our complex has become about 30-40% "migrants", so far no real troubles with them but the increasing scarcity of housing has become problematic as landlords are taking full advantage of it as I recently priced apartments here and also in the surrounding areas due to our lease soon ending and the increase with the new lease- we can't afford to move as even with the increase it is still far cheaper than anywhere even 50 miles out. Out of desperation I checked out rents in my old hometown down in Texas though I never wanted to live there again but they are having the same issues. The same apartment one of our daughters rented 5 years ago is nearly $400 more per month now (if they even had a vacancy- but they don't!) and that is the cheapest complex within a 25 mile radius. Same problems everywhere apparently.

At the rate they are going within our lifetime poor and middle class American renters will be completely priced out of the market, homelessness will boom greater than it already has and "migrants" will replace us completely all while our tax dollars foot the bill. It's scary and I wouldn't have believed it just a few years ago. Personally I'm cheering for a big asteroid to come.