ronn

libertyandfree said:

ronn said:

libertyandfree said:

"It'll be terrible from a housing perspective. We have not planned ahead for that," Mai Thi Nyguen, a professor of city and regional planning at the University of North Carolina, told U.S. News.  This guy is stuck on stupid.

FYI, it's interesting the article says the median house price has increased by 50% over last 5 years but I can tell the price of a given house (not a median) has increased maybe 20% over that same period - I know because I live there and you can check Zillow as well.  The RTP area has very affordable housing and does anyone really think Apple adding 5,000 jobs over a few years to a region of 2.1M people is a big problem?  Keep in mind the brainiacs at UNC also wanted all of us out of the suburbs and back into the city because we were ruining the environment.  Ever been to Raleigh and RTP, there are forests everywhere.    

It doesn't help your point of view when you can't even get the gender of Nguyen right. She's a specialist in Housing and Community Development that lives in works in North Carolina. And as another poster already wrote, she doesn't so much oppose the Apple campus; she's really advocating that the state takes care to accommodate the needs an influx of workers will require -- it doesn't matter if it's 5K or 20K, there will be an impact. This is especially true for infrastructure and the potentially negative outcome for residents, current and future.

edited to correct professor Nguyen's name.

The potential addition of Apple is a nonfactor for the Triangle area since we have been dealing with a constant influx of people for 3+ decades just fine.  Ask why this is a problem now and notice the title of the article is "opposition to new Apple campus emerges in North Carolina Research Triangle".  The opposition only originates from the UNC crowd and my point is these people are anti-growth no matter what it is, I have been hearing this same song from the UNC crowd for years on end.  Of course, we will manage the growth, that is obvious and not even a question for the people of the area.  I suppose Prof. Nyguen would be more pleased if the Raleigh area was more like Detroit.  

The headline gets it wrong. Again, Nguyen and others stress the state and local governments need to be prepared for such an influx of projects and the resulting population spikes. Even without Apple and Amazon, the area will see more than 20K jobs added this year alone.

The area currently cannot keep up with the influx of jobs and associated needs of all those people, and has made it harder for residents and local governments in the area. This has been an ongoing problem for several years. With Apple possibly adding 10-20K jobs and Amazon ~50K should they locate their HQ2 there (not to mention there are others adding locations and jobs at the same time), there needs to be adequate planning.

With the legislature giving out tax breaks for up to 30 years, where will the financing come from for the necessary infrastructure? Roads, transportation, schools, hospitals, etc. won't pay for itself. Especially since they killed light rail as an option, meaning there will be no Federal grant matching. Taxpayers are not keen on having their taxes raised to pay for infrastructure while these rich corps are being catered to and having their taxes lowered, resulting in higher costs all over the place.

libertyandfree said:

"It'll be terrible from a housing perspective. We have not planned ahead for that," Mai Thi Nyguen, a professor of city and regional planning at the University of North Carolina, told U.S. News.  This guy is stuck on stupid.

FYI, it's interesting the article says the median house price has increased by 50% over last 5 years but I can tell the price of a given house (not a median) has increased maybe 20% over that same period - I know because I live there and you can check Zillow as well.  The RTP area has very affordable housing and does anyone really think Apple adding 5,000 jobs over a few years to a region of 2.1M people is a big problem?  Keep in mind the brainiacs at UNC also wanted all of us out of the suburbs and back into the city because we were ruining the environment.  Ever been to Raleigh and RTP, there are forests everywhere.    

It doesn't help your point of view when you can't even get the gender of Nguyen right. She's a specialist in Housing and Community Development that lives in works in North Carolina. And as another poster already wrote, she doesn't so much oppose the Apple campus; she's really advocating that the state takes care to accommodate the needs an influx of workers will require -- it doesn't matter if it's 5K or 20K, there will be an impact. This is especially true for infrastructure and the potentially negative outcome for residents, current and future.

edited to correct professor Nguyen's name.

lordjohnwhorfin said:

I can understand risking your life to defend someone else's life, but stolen property that will most likely be refunded by insurance? Not worth it. Please don't put yourself in danger for material things.

Had a former co-worker that worked in a well-known department store's security department. He said he would never ever go after thieves once they left the premises. A fellow security officer had his face sliced open by an accomplice waiting outside the store. When I was a retail manager we were trained to not only never chase anyone outside, to not to confront thieves in store, let security make the call. Emotions and adrenaline took over sometimes for some, but I never physically confronted anyone. It's not worth the trouble and potential harm when insurance will make the store whole.

lkrupp said:

So a question for the Android crowd that lurks and skulks around in these forums. Why aren’t the thieves Stealing Galaxy S9s? Or Pixels? Or HTCs? Or any of the many iPhone killers you have touted over the past decade? Are Android phones not worth stealing? Are they that worthless that even thieves don’t want them because there’s no money in stealing Android stuff?

Android phones are stolen. Hell, basic cell phones are stolen on a regular basis. Thieves steal the phones mostly for the personal data/credit info often stored on them, and for sale overseas. One of the headlines is misleading: "Man arrested for stealing 27 iPhones..." The linked story says "27 cell phones" and details how one of the stolen cell phones was an iPhone that was tracked using "Find My iPhone."

I remember a "60 Minutes" story on the corruption of the NOPD: Low pay, low standards and generally corrupt mentality from pols that didn't want to do anything about it. I imagine it's much worse after Katrina and the brain-dead hiring freeze of a few years ago.

A couple acquaintances said Treme and movies accurately portrayed the thuggish nature of the force. NOPD members would blatantly steal from and demand protection money from small business owners, especially clubs/bars. And they didn't restrict themselves to just New Orleans, but the surrounding areas as well.