>The government must be terrible. Taxes are very high. Services are terrible (particularly bus).
Infer about state of gov't, don't bother finding anything out about it let alone get involved, then griping online? You probably deserve bad government.
6 months residency is more than enough time to become acclimated to the cities problems and be a champion of fiscally acceptable infrastructure solutions, right? No. It is not.
The author makes a very fair observation. Side note, the idea that some people "deserve bad government" is one if the single most ludicrous things i have ever read on HN
6 months residency is more than enough time to become acclimated to the cities problems and be a champion of fiscally acceptable infrastructure solutions, right? No. It is not.
It's not. But it's more than enough time to start investigating local governance beyond "must be" statements if it is a thing you care about.
Infer about state of gov't, don't bother finding anything out about it let alone get involved, then griping online? You probably deserve bad government.