I feel like similarly sized cities have similar problems.
for what it’s worth, I liked Richmond when I visited
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Alteon@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYeah, sorta.
- 311 is a shit show. You have to pretty much get involved with your local government officials to get literally anything done, otherwise you can just live with your pothole.
- City officials have had a hard on for a minor league baseball stadium for fucking YEARS. They asked Richmond citizens for their vote on it, and every single time people said fuck no. It’s $110 million that could have been used to repair crumbling infrastructure, provide support programs, add additional affordable housing, repair our busted streets…noooo, why do that when we can go to a fucking minor league baseball game. Good idea Stoney.
- City officials also hard a hard on for a casino to bring in additional “needed money” that they planned to throw in absolutely terrible locations. No one wanted it. I think we had to vote it down like half a dozen times.
Petersburg, a
crumbling ruinstruggling town is now voting to add it. Just what it needs. - Look up the history of Jackson Ward.
- Shcokoe Bottome still has buildings were destroyed in the flood back 30 years ago that have yet to be revitalized (but a fucking stadium is fine, right?)
Thats just off the top of my head. Love it here though. Just…lots of annoyances.
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Battle_Masker@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
don’t forget the statewide ban on pornographic material. granted it was mostly as anti-lgbt hate speech, but it banned like all sorts of shit including pornhub and it’s subcompanies, several textbooks, etc