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BillD's avatar

Ambitious, smart people move to urban areas because that's where the work and the $ are. That's been going on forever. Sclerosis/NIMBYism is the major obstacle for the entire USA. And Aspen, CO has a 3 story limit I believe, for whatever that is worth!

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I’ve been on both sides of this debate and seen it play out in places I’ve lived and the lives of people there. I grew up in a small town in northern WI. My uncle was a real estate investor and developer that made a lot of money investing in real estate within the community he grew up in and loved only to be mostly hated for it, until he stopped investing locally and started investing outside of the community. People live in places like Grand Marais because they like it the way it is and don’t want people moving in and changing things. They don’t agree that it’s “grow or die”. Now I live in Post Falls, ID next to Coeur d’Alene and there is massive population increase that is very much not wanted by locals. There are “slow growth” and “anti-growth” groups that debate on local

social media and show up to city meetings. I work with real estate brokers that are pissed at local municipalities for not allowing more business. There’s been an increase in crime as well. People are moving businesses here from California only because the communist purges are forcing them out. It sucks that the communists in St. Paul have mandated that local communities pay for services they can’t provide. I’m sure that’ll work out REAL WELL for everyone🙄. Commies kill everything good that they touch. I’m guessing if I lived in Grand Marais, I probably wouldn’t want anything to change either.

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