🚀 go-pugleaf

Eternal Nay-sayer wrote:

> But I also strongly belive that if people with money want to move into a
> neighborhood that historically has never had a welfare presence, because
> it's a neighborhood that is populated entirely by people who can afford
> to be there, they should have the right (both as affected property owners
> and as tax-paying voters) to not have their tax dollars used to subsidize
> the people they're trying to escape from imported into their
> neighborhood.

I think you may be confusing your criterion for judging who is a good neighbor.
You are using money alone, and it don't work that way.  If that's really your way of
thinking, then I don't want you for a neighbor.  I've come up in the world, too.
I've lived in Georgetown in the rendering plant effluvium, before the area became
fashionable, and Adams Morgan before it became trendy.   We moved a lot, from one
barely affordable, squalid little apartment to another.  I went to a different high
school each year.  Sure, others have had it worse.  I grew up and prospered.  I have
lived in Potomac <fanfare> and been less than totally impressed with the neighbors.
Where I live now is you might say, mixed, with intimations of infill.  When I look
out a window I see azaleas and green lawn and no neighbor looking back.  I cannot
say that I ever moved to escape my neighbors or worried too much about what my tax
dollars were doing.