tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post1868836454371391333..comments2024-03-28T17:55:31.180-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: Another Distinction for HudsonCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-2880720369692011352018-12-07T11:43:20.517-05:002018-12-07T11:43:20.517-05:00j kay, it's not just the US, look at Paris! On...j kay, it's not just the US, look at Paris! Only the wealthiest live there now, and the workers who service them. But what's more dangerous there compared to any American city is that the two remaining Parisian groups belong to two very different ethnicities. Here, we're still a melting pot provided we don't behave like elitists - either the San Francisco kind or the Nativist kind. unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-31355279897690760032018-12-06T19:08:50.791-05:002018-12-06T19:08:50.791-05:00you are right -- in the 50s and 60s Hudson had th...you are right -- in the 50s and 60s Hudson had thosands of jobs. <br /><br />the new model in America is to move all the jobs off shore and "globalize". <br /><br />then the elite can make the money -- and the rest of the populace can live in "affordable" housing. <br />look at san francisco -- a forward looking city with huge urban problems. no one can live there unless they work for facebook. <br />and facebook pays its lowliest workers not much in a salary. <br /><br />the new model is already operating in the advanced state of California. You either live in a 5 million dollar 3 bedroom house -- or you are headed for a tent next to the highway. <br /><br />read all about it -- the new America <br /><br />https://www.wired.com/story/spur-bay-area-2070-report-predictions/j kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08669649380477390089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-75480107409315768302018-12-06T16:37:20.466-05:002018-12-06T16:37:20.466-05:00Because there are no good jobs. Peruse indeed.com ...Because there are no good jobs. Peruse indeed.com for a couple months, it's bleak. I'm going to have to move away for a better job soon. raoul dukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05579749314920195945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-38514382805230538192018-12-06T16:14:21.663-05:002018-12-06T16:14:21.663-05:00Clearly Hudson is shrinking (populationwise) becau...Clearly Hudson is shrinking (populationwise) because of the loss of children. The public school district has shrunk by some 30 percent in the last ten years (from 2400 kids to 1700). Peter Meyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16077048678660809331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-65186233182240449332018-12-06T10:43:40.552-05:002018-12-06T10:43:40.552-05:00So very lucky to have grown up here in the sixties...So very lucky to have grown up here in the sixties, when Hudson was a great place for the middle class to live and work, before it was"developed" into a nice place for tourists to visit. 1Riparianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17248602693560230557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-2786761594334447912018-12-05T23:37:36.211-05:002018-12-05T23:37:36.211-05:00As an ominous sign it's a great endorsement of...As an ominous sign it's a great endorsement of the City's new planning effort. But it will require close attention at each step. We can't afford another LWRP-type debacle, riddled with autocratic missteps and frustrated public participation. unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-15577754491112725382018-12-05T21:43:13.089-05:002018-12-05T21:43:13.089-05:00That's because people no longer live in many o...That's because people no longer live in many of the houses. They sit empty, except for when they are rented out as BnBs on weekends.Cynthia Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16611234458613584346noreply@blogger.com