tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37877540.post4939679449469781255..comments2024-01-18T05:45:59.595-05:00Comments on The Daily Bellwether: Cleveland Police Union Chief: Praises Decision Ending City Worker Residency RulesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12712163977315292252noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37877540.post-18307277904488148262007-12-03T20:01:00.000-05:002007-12-03T20:01:00.000-05:00Hi Bill -- I suppose the real issue in all of this...Hi Bill -- <BR/><BR/>I suppose the real issue in all of this is: Why don't most people want to live in Ohio's large cities at this moment in time? I think it is because the schools are considered better elsewhere; also race, taxes, safety and crime, access to shopping, parking, roads, cleaniness and tidiness, questions about how services are delivered, an overall comfort level.<BR/><BR/>I'm not knocking any city, or city living. Indeed, I enjoy the city (Cincinnati) and am fond of some of its neighborhoods and spend a good deal of time in them. Others are the pits. But I don't know that it is fair to make somebody live someplace by law or regulation. Seems like a bit of an infringement on personal liberty. <BR/><BR/>Somehow, we have to, as a society, decide that we want our cities to be healthy and thriving and places where people want to live, not be forced to live. We also have to decide that our small, rural towns need to be healthy, too. Many of them seem to be in worse condition than the big cities -- though their situation doesn't get much attention or discussion.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712163977315292252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37877540.post-7299289565277708782007-12-03T19:40:00.000-05:002007-12-03T19:40:00.000-05:00Last time I looked the City of Cleveland had more ...Last time I looked the City of Cleveland had more than 7,000 employees. That's at least 1.5% of the city's total population. Assuming the majority of those employees have spouses and kids, it's a reasonable guess that city workers' households contain 15,000 to 20,000 residents, which would be 3% to 4% of the city's population.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com