Doug Davis wrote:.....we are about done.
Phil Gissen wrote:...What Louisville is, for better or worse, drove me away. Its reality did not meet or fit my needs.
Doug Davis wrote:My wife and I moved here over six years ago, because at the time Outside Magazine was trumpeting Louisville as a "Top Twenty Town to Live in Now" ie the next Seattle or Boulder. But having been here for six years and seen the smoking, obesity, and cancer rates; coupled with the $1 billion dollar school system JCPS and a statewide education system that is in the bottom ten nationally; a $9 billion dollar ticking time bomb for the state due to its unfunded pension obligations; some of the highest tax rates in the nation (we are #8 in the US as of Feb this year); and what was recently revealed to be the most corrupt state government in the country (and anyone who has ever interacted with our state government knows this).....we are about done.
Doug Davis wrote:Are more young people with college degrees moving to Louisville than Portland? No.
What the study's authors found is that in a weighted scale based on city size and other precursors during the years 2008 to 2010 Louisville outperformed other metropolitan regions in attracting college graduates. But Portland stilled attracted twice as many as us, and Seattle, Dallas, Washington DC had 4 times or more incoming college graduates.
Houston and Nashville have been the two biggest winners over the past decade.
You can read the actual study here:
http://mkn.research.pdx.edu/wp-content/ ... eport1.pdf
My wife and I moved here over six years ago, because at the time Outside Magazine was trumpeting Louisville as a "Top Twenty Town to Live in Now" ie the next Seattle or Boulder. But having been here for six years and seen the smoking, obesity, and cancer rates; coupled with the $1 billion dollar school system JCPS and a statewide education system that is in the bottom ten nationally; a $9 billion dollar ticking time bomb for the state due to its unfunded pension obligations; some of the highest tax rates in the nation (we are #8 in the US as of Feb this year); and what was recently revealed to be the most corrupt state government in the country (and anyone who has ever interacted with our state government knows this).....we are about done.
Ive spent too much time flying back and forth to DC for White House conferences and trying to get the Beshear administration to listen to viable plans for economic development for Eastern and Western Kentucky. As the saying goes, you cant fix stupid.
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