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[Spicoli]

http://sharonherald.com/local/x431306108/Too-soon-to-gauge-rentals-impact

-The neighbors make some good points about what it will be like in fifteen years.  Time will tell I guess.

-They've got Wilders living there?  Strike one!  I can't believe they found not one but two that could pass a criminal background check. 

[Jayhawk]

Why do i get the sense that the NIMBY neighbors are the type who prone to attend tea party rallies, too?

[bluebomber]

Jayhawk,
You are probably on to something. The folks who attend tea party rallys do come across as people who actually earned what they have by hard work and sacrifice unlike the great entitlement society we are quickly becoming. Although I am not a tea party member I can appreciate the concerns of the neighbors of this developement. Fifteen years ago I bought a house in a nice Sharon neighborhood by the high school. My wife and I stubornly refused to sell and move out of Sharon at our friends' urging because we were born and raised here and liked our neighbors very much, none of us thought the entitlement blight would affect us. Well now that the entitlement crowd has moved in all around us we couldn't sell unless we gave it away for less than half of what we paid and invested into our house. That is because the trash who get everything for free do not take care of what they have, why should they? They get to move to a nice country neighborhood on our dime.

[NightmarePatrol]

It's a tough sell getting low income people into housing, especially if they have to maintain it. Everyone has a different skill set and some people can maintain their own homes and some cannot. But the issue is can they afford to whether it's DIY or via contractor. It sounds like a good idea on paper but I don't know if it'll fly long term. I don't know the whole situation there but is does kind of sound like a project, veiled though it may be.

I see the herald stopped their silly ideas of letting subscribers only into their site.

[Lifetime]

I was one of the ones trying to SHAME some of those BETTER THAN THOU Hermitage residents...when this first came to the Council day one. Same BULL S-it arguments from the same BS people.
 
My take...
 
15 years is a long time to be sure... but who knows what that will bring..Look at what happened to our Steel Industry from 1975 to 1990.. Anything can happen... Vibrant neighborhoods went to crap in less time. But... who are these NOSTRADOMUS's??
 
I am in the same situation as Blue Bomber but... one difference between most and myself..I was taught MANY YEARS ago... a house is NOT an investment.. You have to keep putting money in it..kinda like a car with 100,000 miles on it... LAND is the investment.. no overhead but taxes. Now to my difference... I have had a meeting with my city manager and informed him... unlike those who want to MAKE MONEY on a house..I don't have that aspiration. I told him I could empty my house and store the contents.. load the car and not look back... the house is the city's problem. I don't have a problem if I have to abandon it. To add to that.. no taxes from me for 3 properties either. Not that I am, but.. I have that option. I bought a house to LIVE in, not to make it my retirement program. See where that got us? I can be just as happy with an acre and a mobile home... or even an RV if so desired.
 
My Father bought just ONE house in his life, his father before him and I did the same... Oh and I live with the "entitlement blight" and avoided my participation in the "White Flight" .. so far.. my wife and I are holding our own.. I am retired and she may soon.
 
What I have learned is that when GOOD people move OUT( read BAIL OUT) of a neighborhood, bad people fill the holes. It will become so prevalent that the ones you RUN from, eventually move in right next door to you... where ever you move...and criminals go where the money is at as well.
 
I also learned that Hermitage has covered their asses really well, but it is slowly losing that ability. How you ask?... Hmmmm they put the Bolde Drive Projects right on the Farrell Border to give the impression that it is a "Farrell" Problem when the police are called and then Orange Village next to Sharon to make problems seem to be Sharon's ( But the HICKORY COPS have to drive through Sharon to get to Orange Village.. neat huh?) Add to that.. empty homes as well as empty store fronts. Just drive around and really look.
 
Mrs. Madura of ..HERMITAGE was quoted as saying that SHE didn't want POOR people moving to or living in HERMITAGE. My Question to her was this.. Since YOU have a Manufacturing Plant in SHARON, do you pay your workers enough to LIVE in HERMITAGE?  If not, WHY NOT? Sometimes reality and perception are way different.
 
My thought is.. Allow those people to live on Valley View... they may be better HUMAN BEINGS than your own neighbors up there already. They may even surprise you. God bless ANYONE who has NEVER needed to ask/applied for any kind of Government help to include loans, education, Grants.