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I wasn't sure which board this topic belongs in, so, move if it shouldn't be here.
My question is simple, but the answer may be complex.
The last time I flew up to Pgh, and then drove in other western PA towns like New Castle, Sharon and Erie, I was stunned by what I witnessed.
Western PA is in shambles. I have heard stories, but to actually drive through it was appalling: block after block of neighborhoods that looked like shacks and shanties.
I mean, plastic for windows, boarded up homes. No one seen on the streets for long stretches.
SO, I get it. The lack of decent paying jobs is the #1 cause, with drug use and gangs the other part of it. (There is currently an mad epidemic in this country with pain killers, that lead to heroin use, since the pills are more expensive).
My question is: How did we come to this?
How can it be fixed?
And please, spare me that it is all from liberals. Even democrats would not prefer this decay to happen.
My question is simple, but the answer may be complex.
The last time I flew up to Pgh, and then drove in other western PA towns like New Castle, Sharon and Erie, I was stunned by what I witnessed.
Western PA is in shambles. I have heard stories, but to actually drive through it was appalling: block after block of neighborhoods that looked like shacks and shanties.
I mean, plastic for windows, boarded up homes. No one seen on the streets for long stretches.
SO, I get it. The lack of decent paying jobs is the #1 cause, with drug use and gangs the other part of it. (There is currently an mad epidemic in this country with pain killers, that lead to heroin use, since the pills are more expensive).
My question is: How did we come to this?
How can it be fixed?
And please, spare me that it is all from liberals. Even democrats would not prefer this decay to happen.