re: #72 ProTARDISLiberal

And exactly how are you going to get anyone to move down here? There aren’t enough jobs, our schools are overwhelmed and underfunded and our infrastructure is falling apart. We have school bus drivers being underpaid or not at all. We do have jobs for skilled trades people, but beyond that unless you want a retail job, a service job or the scattered IT or talk center job there isn’t anything that pays worth a damn.

My husband and I have lived down here for 27 yrs. We both came during the construction boom then. He has worked in maintenance management and building maintenance for his entire adult life. Since 2008 he has been laid off 4 times and each new job pays less than the one before it for the same job. And we’re in Metro Atlanta, it’s better here than it is in much of the South. An influx of minorities/immigrants won’t do a damned thing but piss off an already agitated population that’s overly armed.