Bro, this... Lets not forget Montclair literally tried to secede from Essex County because their taxes went to propping up Newark (yet we give up valuable real estate for the court house, the sheriff's department, the prison, the energy industry, etc that literally allows that town to function without ever having to give up any of its land to nontaxable uses).

Its just annoying to hear wealthy suburbanites complain that newark is too poor and not worth going to visit, but once we start working on becoming a place that people would like to spend some time in, its we dont care for the poor.

Also, its funny being called a shill for developers when anyone who has been here over the last few years knows I literally got into months long debates with some who defected to another Newark reddit page because I was deemed too development unfriendly just because I supported more affordable housing initiatives/even stricter forms of the current law.