if you take the human factor out of play it is painfully absurd that businesses and itinerant professionals continually choose to locate their business hubs within midsize boutique cities that are poorly situated for if not outright hostile to expansion. seems like it'd be a lot easier to make phoenix 'hipper' than it will be to make boulder or austin 'bigger'. resentment is intellectually lazy and i know hn frowns upon NIMBY-ism but it is hard not to feel like the west coast locusts are bearing down upon us to cannibalize everything that made home 'home' before moving on in another 10 to 20 years once our communities have been stripped to the marrow.
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if you take the human factor out of play it is painfully absurd that businesses and itinerant professionals continually choose to locate their business hubs within midsize boutique cities that are poorly situated for if not outright hostile to expansion. seems like it'd be a lot easier to make phoenix 'hipper' than it will be to make boulder or austin 'bigger'. resentment is intellectually lazy and i know hn frowns upon NIMBY-ism but it is hard not to feel like the west coast locusts are bearing down upon us to cannibalize everything that made home 'home' before moving on in another 10 to 20 years once our communities have been stripped to the marrow.