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I'm torn because 1) Providence does need some relief in spiraling housing costs and building more should relieve the strain. Only it never seems to. 2). I love Providence as a small city. I think some growth is fine too, but some people want it to be like the big cities they left. I'm not sure why they move to a small city if they prefer big cities.
Providence just finished building some affordable housing in South Providence and I'm sure there's more to come. I don't know why people expect that affordable housing is going to be built on prime real estate in prime areas of downtown.
Private developers and capitalism (profit) is what drives building and these developers get a lot of tax breaks now! Providence is mainly developed by a handful of real estate developers and by Brown U. It is rare that we get opened land like that from 195, so we need to be especially careful with how it gets built since most buildings last for a long time!
I very much agree with your second point "why they move to a small city if they prefer big cities".
I was recently reading the Maine forum and a comment was made by someone who had just moved there from NYC and was complaining about the lack of Chinese restaurants in Maine.
I was recently reading the Maine forum and a comment was made by someone who had just moved there from NYC and was complaining about the lack of Chinese restaurants in Maine.
I haven't read the Maine thread but I don't understand why you feel this is worthy of a head smack.
I haven't read the Maine thread but I don't understand why you feel this is worthy of a head smack.
People love Chinese food.
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Originally Posted by CaseyB
Yes, but don't move to Maine and expect it. This is similar to all the whining from NYers in the NC forum complaining about bagels.
I don't know much about Maine but I see at least 17 Chinese restaurants in Portland, ME. Quite a few others scattered around the state, but definitely less than I would expect.
RI, MA, and CT seem to have at least one Chinese restaurant in almost every town. Other than Boston and Quincy MA, I don't think there's a large Chinese population in any of these places.
I get the bagels in NC comparison, but I think there's more of a market for Chinese food. And isn't the bagel thing more about the poor quality rather than the availability? Similar to the complaints about bad pizza in California and Florida? Or is it difficult to find bagels in NC?
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