Scientist: If we continue these trends the climate will change erratically

Everyone: nah

Weather: becomes erratic

Everyone: wtf

(Not calling you out op, just tongue in cheek)

50 is beautiful, and I was a Floridian for years. You gotta shape up

I don’t think people tend to get up much earlier than in other states though.

There are more people leaving this state than moving here. No influx of any group is pushing you out. It’s for profit housing/NIMBYism that failed to meet the demand of the the large group of millennials entering the housing market. There’s absolutely 0 reason to point the finger at tech people when migration to this state is negative. They aren’t raising or lowering your housing prices. With or without the tech industry, housing would be an issue. The “large group” you are referring to are Millennials, the largest generation group in the US, coming of age.

Millennials are the second largest generation ever, and adding them to a housing market which was already precarious for Gen X has absolutely fucked the housing market in states that don’t have much unincorporated land left. Massachusetts has no unincorporated land remaining.

Which states are you driving into?

You’re being pushed out by the communities that don’t allow affordable housing to be built because it’ll unattractive “undesirables”. Building companies don’t want to keep building high income housing, profit margins are about the same with the added negative that luxury housing is extremely feeble in economic crisis situations. The problem is that hardly any community in the state wants to allow builders to build affordable housing. The demand is so high for affordable housing here, builders have been licking their chops for years to get in on it. Beyond that, the market is way over saturated for luxury housing at the moment.

Tech people moving to Worcester is a symptom of the bigger issue, not the cause of the issue.

Might as well move to Pawtucket at that point

Damn, just as work makes me relocate for a few months. Wish I was there to take advantage, to my fellow ebirders get this checked off.

I was scared we'd see the inverse, this is beautiful

Dude youre latched as fuck. Once again, I’m not reading the manic ramblings of some freak with a LePage body pillow soaked in cum.

Holy shit, you're still going on?? My guy you need to get a hobby, you're way too latched to this. Typical conservative no life moment

I just told you I'm not reading anything you're saying lmfao, and yet you're still replying. Desperate ass LePage bootlicking mf

>Jesus Christ cry me a river

ironic when you're the one writing novels weeping on a week old thread

Jesus Christ you’re still going? The fact you feel the need to write a thesis on why you’re not racist says a lot about you

Noting that most migrants are brown is racist? Lmao, especially as I’m brown this comes off as desperate. Keep crying into your LePage body pillow

Not reading your long ass explanation as to why immediately blaming brown people for this nation’s issues isn’t racism. Especially when you’re trying to justify blaming 900 new migrants a year as destroying this state’s housing market. Sorry LePage fanboy. You’ll never see another far right governor again here.

He’s literally blaming Maine’s housing shortages on migrants despite Maine receiving a grand total of 900 migrants per year. If you don’t think it’s racist to immediately blame minorities for problems then you’re probably a typical mindless LePage drone too. Go move to Texas or something.

So, it's racist to note that most immigrants are people of color? Lmfao, what's next, is it racist to point out that you're white? Give me a break.

And where did I say they were "Of a single race?" I said you're race baiting, i.e., blaming problems white people created on nonwhite people. Which is exactly what you meant with that comment.

According to PEW research center, 68% of documented immigrants are Asian or Hispanic. If you add undocumented immigrants, that balloons to about 90% Hispanic or Asian (With around 7% being Hispanic), and only around 5% white.

Again, where are you going with this? Does 900 migrants moving to Maine each year create a housing crisis? Or does the lack of affordable/government subsidized housing cost it?

Knowing you, you'll resort back to "Fox News brown people bad keep Maine White"

You claimed "all new housing goes to immigrants" despite only 900 immigrants moving to Maine in 2021. Stop lindy hopping around the point and explain your race baiting.

And yet no mention of your race baiting which you brought into this. Very interesting

>Building 1,000 apartments in ten years is not going to solve the problem.

Let's be conservative and say each apartment hosts 60 housing units on average. That results in 60,000 apartment units. 44,000 people moved to Maine between 2010 and 2021. The average family size in Maine is 2.87 people. Assuming each family needs one unit, dividing 44,000 by 2.87 leads us to 15,331 units being used. That's around 45,000 units left.

So... yeah, building apartments would be more than enough to solve the problem lmfao. Godforbid they might attract jobs and industry to the state as well!

Also, there were only 900 immigrants to Maine in 2021. Good way to bring the race card into this.

So you can:

Return it to it's original culture who have been oppressed for years

or

Profit

Which seems fair to you?

The electoral college was a useful tool in the pre-Civil War era of US politics. The era when the federal government was nearly non-existent. Post-Civil War, it makes no sense. It's not 1850 anymore, states don't control the majority of functions in our daily lives. The Federal Government does.

States where more people live should have more of a say than states where no one lives. One person = one vote. It goes against the principles this country was founded on to believe otherwise.

> Why would anyone in America think their vote should matter more than others?

You should ask yourself this question. Everyone's vote should count the same. One vote is one vote. I don't know what's so hard to understand here. Less people live in rural areas, so naturally, their votes combined should count as less to fairly represent population. If more people lived in farms than cities, the system should stay the same.

Your argument is literally "all votes should be equal, but if everyone has equal votes that bad because rural populations get underrepresented".

>Or in other words, urban votes would matter way more than rural ones.

Wow, it's almost like more people live in urban areas than rural areas and this country's politics should reflect that. Funny right?