Not intending to hijack, but BC now has legitimate, legal cocaine factories in Surrey.
Should had stayed in Toronto.
You could really see the difference in crossing the border, now this is more than 20yrs ago I dare say it's changed a lot since then, although I couldn't tell you for the better but as a young Irishman on his first visit to America it was an eye openerShould had stayed in Toronto.
I go to Buffalo a few times a year for a Sabres game. There's some really bad broken down neighbourhoods too. White blue collar town so ever bar plays Bon Jovi and 80s rock. But the people are super nice. Never had an issue ever. Old and crusty bars, but the people in them are the chillest I've ever met. Then again, were not at bus stations. The city and people have no money to renovate homes. Who knows, maybe the inside of their houses are slick, but the exterior of every building and house you see in Buffalo looks like it hasn't been renewed or repainted since 1974.
Never been to Rochester, so not sure what that place is like.
What makes you think this is about unions and not theft? But either way, people who care barely afford to live in portland already are going to suffer because of this.
www.yesmagazine.org
Considering Walmart is one of the biggest reasons for a lot of these people's woes I won't cry at all.
I'd love to comment on this but I fear I'd be given a (justifiable) right kick in the bollocks for discussing politics, it doesn't take a blind man to see that America has massive issues with its 2 party system, like I said for the richest nation on earth you guys sure as shit don't spend it on helping one another, I mean who the fuck needs 11 massive aircraft carriers when you don't have free healthcare like most civilised countriesA very thorough, well-sourced article on this. Well worth the read if one wants to understand why the US seems so scrambled and disfunctional compared to every other developed nation:
Why Conservative Parts of the U.S. Are So Angry
Republican America is poorer, more violent, and less healthy than Democratic America. But Republicans’ blame is misplaced.
Edit: the article hits close to home because I spent a summer in the rural area of Oklahoma mentioned in the article. Fond memories of that place.
Used to live in Portland during the insanity of 2020. It cannot be saved. It’s now a wasteland. Thanks “mostly peaceful protesters”/homeless/rampant crime.
Mostly just the west. You better hope the pendulum swings back because a war breaks out with China their younger generations aren't a bunch of gender confused soft sack of shit spoiled manbabies who don't even love their country.
I'm not suggesting that you should cry for walmart. Walmart hurts all the other businesses around them by selling food and retail goods at the lowest prices available. But you do understand that if that becomes the baseline, taking that cheap source of food and merchandise away from everyone who had come to depend on it is going to hurt a lot of people, right? And in the middle of some serious food cost inflation, this is all even worse than it would have been otherwise.
I fully agree with everything in that article btw
Business is all about profits and if those stores are losing money for whatever reason, goodwill ain't keeping them open which is a pity considering how much money Walmart Makes.
They do have stores that lose money. There is one near me that lost money for years, I know because I worked at the one in my town and we got the numbers for the ones around us. The store was huge and newer so they expected it to become profitable at some point.
They not only allow it there are foxes actively defending and promoting this.
