Let’s review how to choose a town that the rich won’t mess up through gentrification/ swarming in en masse and eliminating residents who need to work for a living.
The other day I discussed how those enhanced by two decades of Federal Reserve-inflated bubbles make housing unaffordable for the bottom 90% by gentrifying formerly economical neighborhoods and towns. As soon as the genuinely wealthy have purchased all the most preferable residential or commercial properties in the most preferable enclaves, the merely millionaires begin grabbing neighboring homes, sustaining a bidding war that soon pushes valuations out of reach of the working people.
As I went over in STVR/Airbnb Has Destroyed America’s Resort Towns (8/30/23), the net outcome is the workforce of the gentrified town can no longer pay for to purchase or rent shelter near their work place. This forces them to commute fars away or quit and move away, leaving the town except individuals to in fact do the work of keeping the town operating.
Let’s evaluate how to pick a town that the rich will not mess up via gentrification/ swarming in en masse and eliminating residents who have to work for a living. Let’s start by dividing the wealthy seeking a great location to live where we can park a few of our excess capital into 4 extremely various classes:
1. The most desirable class of wealthy citizens is old cash, families with deep roots in the town who silently fund needed improvements and services with their wealth and who are protective of what makes the town a great location to live. They have the influence to protect the town from the entitled vultures looking for to make a fast dollar off gentrification and low-grade advancement.
Recent arrivals (within the past 20 years) can qualify if they follow the exact same script of quietly contributing large sums to local requirements and quietly working to keep out the vultures of gentrification. This class of wealth isn’t thinking about scooping up all the land for their own mini-empire; they own enough for their own convenience but are not trying to own the whole location like the wealthiest, greediest vultures.
2. The 2nd finest class is the entrepreneurial wealthy, those who earned their capital by means of effort, thrift and building business that add value– simply put, the reverse of the entitled rich whose cash is the unearned spawn of Fed-inflated bubbles.
The entrepreneurial rich are less most likely to be toxically entitled, more likely to be down to earth and most likely to invest for the long-lasting in regional organizations that provide work and services.
3. The least desirable class is the entitled bubble-wealthy who are cluelessly narcissistic and requiring. They anticipate locals to be uncomplaining servants/ serfs who will do whatever the entitled wealthy desire provided for low incomes. They arrive with puffed up self-importance and a poisonous sense of entitlement, as if whatever they desire should be available to them anywhere they are on the planet. They are ignorant of local history and culture and have little interest in fitting in and no interest in contributing any real work to the neighborhood.
4. The most devastating class is the vulture-developer class who want to swoop in, develop a bunch of low-grade shopping center and substandard houses for the entitled bubble-wealthy that overburden the town’s restricted infrastructure of roadways, water service, and so on, ruining it for residents new and recognized alike.
Rather tongue in cheek, here is a list of characteristics you wish to look for to prevent, as they’re magnets for the entitled bubble-wealthy and the vulture-developer class:
The click-bait posts touting “the 25 finest towns in America” serve one useful function: cross those towns off your list, as they have actually already been destroyed by the increase of entitled, narcissistic outsiders.
A better use of time is to investigate what the entitled rich are looking for, and prevent those towns and little cities that inspect all the boxes the rich consider “must-haves.”
This includes a close-by extremely rated healthcare facility, as the wealthy are anxious to access the very same premium care they’re entitled to, must anything unfortunate take place to their precious bodily fluids.
High-end healthy food is likewise a must. If nouvelle cuisine isn’t readily available, there must be tony cafes and restaurants providing fish tacos, fresh fusion-inspired sandwiches made with craftsmen bread and similar light fare, vegan and vegetarian alternatives and an acceptable choice of white wines, craft beers and other drinks.
The town should have a decent bakeshop and butcher, and a farmer’s market, naturally, as the rich are too busy day-trading, logging onto teleconference or jetting off for their next vacation-business conference to actually grow any genuine food themselves.
A handful of cutsy purchase searching is likewise important, as is some live home entertainment location.
A coffee shop that grinds its own coffee and stocks high-end beans for grinding in your home is also a must, a place pricey enough that locals will stay away, so the rich beginners can collect to grumble about the shortage of quality “aid” locally, as they’re accustomed to employing undocumented immigrants for scandalously low rates of pay.
The police or constable’s department need to be responsive to their calls, naturally, as they’re entitled to special factor to consider due to the taxes they pay (as if locals don’t pay taxes, too …).
An outright should is a neighboring major airport, as the rich are constantly jetting around and it’s extremely inconvenient to have to drive a tediously long method to an industrial airport.
Competent tradespeople, mechanics and techies are high up on the top priority list, as it’s very bothersome not to have somebody who can fix the swimming pool pump in summer, cut the hedges just so, preserve the fast Internet connection and do all that irritating work keeping the short-term vacation rentals spiffy.
Quick Web service is obviously a must; spotty Starlink service will nix an area immediately.
If you want to discover some place the entitled rich are unlikely to mess up due to the fact that they won’t move there– or if you want to arrive before the crowds of entitled but-not-quite-rich-enough-to-buy-an-elite-enclave get here– discover a town that does not have some or all of these essentials, a place the wealthy will show up their noses to, a town with the couple of things you appreciate but not enough to trigger the interest of the entitled rich.
A town with very little tourist is an excellent start, as the rich are drawn to pristine rural idylls that they can “improve” (i.e. destroy) with their entitled demands for a neofeudal arrangement of residents serving their impulses without complaint for low pay.
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