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activehobbies t1_jb6s3el wrote

**Looks at the US South, and it's shitty regional governance that can't solve local problems...like having pottable water.....**

No thanks, we'll keep doing what we're doing. "Big government" actually works when all voting-aged people elect it, rather than exclusively land/home owners.

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UhaRugger1 t1_jb7lshk wrote

Yeah, I live in the south currently under county government and it's a shit show. The money in the south end of the county ends up in the north end primarily. The south end is where all the tourists are. The north end is farms. In the south end we don't even have all our residential roads paved, no streetlights (unless a homeowner pays for it), no sidewalks, our services are atrocious and incredibly underfunded. People here complain any time someone brings up incorporation, they don't want "big government". But then in the same breath complain about how we have no drainage and can't get massive flooding issues fixed. I have zero desire to live in a county run area ever again.

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Nyrfan2017 t1_jbljjct wrote

What’s the difference of having bad elected officals in a county and a city ??? It’s all in the people that are voted in the issue isn’t the county system it’s the people that get elected

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engagementisdumb t1_jb71jer wrote

Our local governance can't solve affordable housing.

Potable water isn't much different, the calculation is still based on a profit motive. In general most areas of CT are too wealthy to lose potable water, nothing to do with governance really.

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johnsonutah t1_jb7q62z wrote

We don’t have affordable housing because the state government can’t afford to remediate the shit ton of old industrial buildings littering Bridgeport, New Haven etc, which is (part of) what’s needed to entice actual development and new housing in our cities.

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engagementisdumb t1_jb7r7lx wrote

When I was buying a house 8 years ago, I could have bought a block in Bridgeport for the average price of a detached home in my area. The problem has not been and will never be "cheap land".

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johnsonutah t1_jbb9hrb wrote

Correct - one of the problems in CT’s cities are that you can’t use the land because abandoned, contaminated buildings are sitting on top of them.

Bridgeport is still cheap.

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