Embed Notice

Gosh, a socialist mayor would be *just awful*!

We've got a lovely wealthy woman, who's kind enough to donate her time in return for a piddling couple of hundred thousand a year. I know, right? It seems hardly worth getting out of bed for. But she strives. Anyway, she's been super for the local housing market, very carefully keeping the council from doing anything too populist, like re-zoning things to encourage infill densification and thus *increase the supply of housing* in a town which has nearly tripled in size in the 33 years I've lived here, and is now planned to reach 1,000,000 people in about five years. But she holds the line! So Line Go Up on housing, which makes everyone very happy, as long as they're one of the relatively few who own a house. Not so much if you rent it, of course.

And we continue to have not one but *two* entire 18-hole golf courses *within city limits*. Which seems a terrific use of green space in a city with a hard border as a town limit, by popular demand, don't you think? Enough golf facilities for probably, what...maybe as many as 100 players at a time, across two facilities! And is in no way related to the fast-growing number of homeless people now sleeping in the encampment near the train station.

But yeah...a socialist mayor. Gosh, what a nightmare, huh? Economy focused on the common good, instead of Line Go Up Faster Every Year? Improving the supply of social housing...maybe by distributing Tiny Houses on some parkland that's not being much used right now except for some people spoiling a good walk, as the saying goes. Making buses free, since we pay for everything the for-profit company uses to make its profit off our property. Non-profit supermarkets, with good healthy food at a reasonable price. On the transit lines.

What a nightmare.

Sigh.

I should be so lucky.