greenglasstree t1_jaamfgx wrote
Reply to comment by PsychologicalAgent64 in Strip Club in Western Mass Wants To Convert Into 'Topless Dispensary,' Purportedly 1st In State by HoldenGambles
I understand why some people have non-moral objections to strip clubs and legal marijuana shops. They lower the valuation of the residential housing nearby.
For example, some towns have or had in recent history a ban on liquor stores and/or fast food restaurants. There's nothing morally wrong with alcohol, marijuana, strippers, tobacco, lottery tickets, fast food, or NASCAR race tracks, but having these things in your town does bring down housing valuation, which is a problem for the upper and upper middle classes.
PsychologicalAgent64 t1_jaamzd6 wrote
The strip club is already in the neighborhood, so any affect it had on residential housing nearby has been dealt with. Marijuana is a legal product and business, so if that somehow affects your neighborhood anymore than the 10 liquor stores do, it's a problem with the people who live in that neighborhood. In the last 3 years, while marijuana has become legal, housing prices across most of the Commonwealth have skyrocketed.
StonksGuy3000 t1_jaanop5 wrote
I agree with your the majority of your point, but the last sentence is a bit superfluous. Housing is up significantly almost everywhere in the last 3 years, whether an area recently legalized or not. Might have something to do with us just printing trillions of dollars like it’s nothing
PsychologicalAgent64 t1_jaao8js wrote
I'm speaking about the Commonwealth because that's where the story is from. We legalized pot, and during that same time housing prices, on the average, went up. I'm not saying they are related. I'm stating two facts.
StonksGuy3000 t1_jaaun3r wrote
Yeah, I got that. My point was that since they’re two completely unrelated points, it’s kinda weird to bring up the housing value part of it. Your post made it seem like it’s causal
PsychologicalAgent64 t1_jaavtv0 wrote
But... You were the one who brought up "the housing value of it" in your OP. You said these businesses bring down housing values. I'm literally responding to the thing you said.
StonksGuy3000 t1_jaay3ow wrote
I said no such thing
PsychologicalAgent64 t1_jab61ex wrote
Ok.
Thesmratestguy t1_jaap93q wrote
It’s not much of a neighborhood. It’s out in farm country. When I was young we referred to this place as “porn in the corn”
zerotakashi t1_jaanlfk wrote
lowers housing prices and brings together laidback people? hell yeah
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