American mobility has been eroded by generations of reformers seeking to reassert control over their neighborhoods and their neighbors. @yappelbaum.bsky.social reports on the progressive policies that have greatly eroded Americans’ freedom to move: https://theatln.tc/okhVbRi4
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This is shit. Your magazine is shit. Your editors are shit. Your owner is a pro-fascist piece of shit.
My Ohio town of 17,000 people stopped a rezoning of a parcel into residential. The rezoning had passed city council, but a citizens' initiative put it on the ballot, and it was overturned by 2/3 of the voters. This town is not progressive.
The mistake the Atlantic makes is assuming that this is a "progressive" tendency and not a human one.
It's such a weird concocted story to start with. Who cares if people move a lot or don't move at all. Is that really what America is all about?
I've moved 19 times in my life. Less is better.
Or perhaps it's greed that has doubled the cost of houses in the past 5 years.
Can't just blame policies. I live in a red state and my first house in 2003 was $93 a square foot. 22 years later the average is $250+ per square foot.