[quote=The-Shoveler] . . . You learn a few things watching a city grow from 20K to 300K in population.[/quote]
The only thing I experienced from watching ChulaV grow from a 52K to a 277K population was longer lines everywhere and more traffic everywhere (due to the “new residents’ hwy” being a toll road, lol). I also “learned” that the City will stop at nothing to create more “revenue” for themselves at any cost to their current residents … only to expand to serve the new residents and then later lay off (when their *new* population fell down on its responsibilities to pay their property taxes and MR (and also their principal, interest, homeowner’s insurance premiums and HOA premiums, lol) as well as failed to maintain their properties.
This “freeloading-squatter phenomenon” went on for YEARS and adversely affected EVERY property owner in the city.
The City created their own monster by issuing subdivision and building permits with abandon causing ALL its residents (new and longtime) to live with severely reduced services as a consequence.
Such is the result of the “experiment” of unbridled growth.
