Nancy Federico, 77, has lived at her apartment on La Playa Street, behind the motel, for 43 years and has an ocean view. When the building goes up, she won’t be able to see the ocean anymore.
“I moved here for that view,” said Federico. “I pay for that view, and then you want to take it away from me and give it to somebody else? How are you going to compensate me? You’ve got to compensate me, or do I have to file a lawsuit?”
The lawsuit counter is that way, ma’am. 
He said a small town. Small town America gives it’s homeless one way bus tickets to the big city cuz only the city can afford them.
This leaves rural America generally homeless free and then Republicans can pile on to Democrats ruining our cities, as evidenced by all the homeless. Smh. All while willfully ignoring that both property crime and violent crime happen at far higher rates out in county.
Every small town in America, having traded in its character for a freeway offramp, feels, and looks, the exact same nowadays - over policed and traumatized communities originally, back in the good ol pre-2008 days, addicted to Adderall and Oxycontin, nostalgically peeling scabs with meth and fent-laced brown. No will to invest locally, no desire to improve things, just escape from the overbearingness, stuck surviving in the dissonance between repeatingly mouthing self-affirmations/placations and the anxiety of knowing you’ll live to witness civilizations end. Just in time for everyone to fall out of love with the discarded husk big tech left of the Internet.
We are all war victims. Protracted slow economic warfare, intentional, we are all frogs and the waters already at a boil. But continue on being a pick-me for corporate greed (not you personally)
With friends like these who needs enemies?
Excellent post. You might like Quiet Town by The Killers
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: