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Originally Posted by eddly
We were renting in Evanston. Finally buying a house this year. With the low availability of suitable rentals you take what you can get with or without schools. It just doesn't make sense to me that their would be essentially no plan for schools being built in a timely manner.
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While I agree that it would be nice for there to be plans for schools, that isn't always realistic. For a long term spending perspective, it makes more sense to see how the community is going to fill out. Your model is what happened in the 50s and 60s, and now you have inner city communities with schools less than a kilometre apart. Those school are struggling to get students, and we are now faced with busing kids to fill those schools.
With regards to rentals, having just faced that myself I have to say there are rentals near schools, but you have to be prepared to pay a premium. I'm easily paying an extra $200 per month over what I could have rented elsewhere; just for my son to be walking distance to his school.
As for the tax, I say there should be a gas tax. And soon. If gas had just dropped to 90¢ instead of 80¢, we would still be happy. And the gov't could have kept revenues up. When oil recovers and gas prices rise, make it the law that the gas tax also goes back down.