So long as businesses continue to develop capital projects that demand human labor, people will continue to migrate to the capital in order to secure livable wages. These policies are far more in line with a state that’s actively gentrifying and wants to force low-wage residents out than one that’s afraid it can’t get high wage professionals to move in.
The low wage workers who they are trying to drive out make the place attractive to be a high wage earner. No high wage earner wants to live somewhere they can’t reliably order a pizza or go out for a drink, which is what you get if all the low wage people leave.
Do you want mass migration out of your state? Because this is how you get mass migration out of your state.
Except for the fact that most of the people who can’t afford rent can’t afford to move to another state either.
Plus there’s the ones who can’t leave because of family or work.
If moving both yourself and who/what you need with you was free, almost nobody would live in non-Nashville Tennessee.
I love my non nashville tennessee city, and love my state. But I hate our state’s legislature. And nashville honestly
So long as businesses continue to develop capital projects that demand human labor, people will continue to migrate to the capital in order to secure livable wages. These policies are far more in line with a state that’s actively gentrifying and wants to force low-wage residents out than one that’s afraid it can’t get high wage professionals to move in.
The low wage workers who they are trying to drive out make the place attractive to be a high wage earner. No high wage earner wants to live somewhere they can’t reliably order a pizza or go out for a drink, which is what you get if all the low wage people leave.
That’s why you’ll find slums in most major cities.