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Originally Posted by Muta
Oh, believe me... I'm dealing with it just fine. I think I'll be okay. 
You fail to realize that I do recgonize taxes are higher where I live, and that's okay. Is that a perfect situation? Hell no. But that's the way it is. The issue I have is that people like yourself who live in these outer areas get ALOT of services from the City, alot more than inner-city residents do on a dollar-to-dollar basis. You might take them for granted, but you do. Infrastructure, police, fire, environmental costs... there's a disadvantage in this regard to living far out of the core; and sooner or later, the City will be taxing these services more on YOU; and it's not a question of if, but when. Then, when us inner-city residents get a project worth spending money on in our neighbouhoods - a beautiful bridge that doesn't just benefit us, but all residents of the city and non-residents too - everyone else elsewhere gets in a tizzy because it's a waste of money, apparently. Perhaps it's because that money is not going to roads servicing them, I'm not sure.
I would hope at this point, that these people never even think of using this bridge or point it out to their friends and family in a positive light when showing them around town.
I'd also like to ask; how did people feel when the City upgraded the Centre Street bridge and spent money fixing up and repairing all those Lions? That's inner-city beautification, money spent on a beautiful bridge - but, on a non-functional aspect of it. How did people feel about that? No one's brought this up yet. |
There is a lot of energy that gets wasted when people start worrying about what other people have/get vs. what they have. Isn't envy one of the 7 sins
I like the Louise bridge or whatever it's called. I think about it every time I run along the river and see it. I was thinking about this conversation and that bridge yesterday. It's a nice bridge! Granted that was a complete mess up, didn't the original contractor go broke and the city got effd?
Might be a lot of remembrance over that still?
Like I said, I'm not really caring, I only got into this conversation to make my joke about homeless people sleeping under it. I like the idea of a nice bridge or two, I can empathize with the people who say it can be nice and not cost $25 million. I can also empathise with the people who want nice things in the city. Both are good opinions.
What gets to me is the us vs. them inner city vs. suburbs mentality. You and I have gotten into this before when I was living in Tuscany and we started talking about C-train, water facilities, etc. What continues these conversations is the smug (not implying you) attitude that people take thinking what they chose is right and you're wrong. It's like religion, vegetarians, prius's vs. SUV's etc. It's a choice, I've made mine. Give your opinion, great, but...
Ugh... I need to get back to work.