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Originally Posted by mongoXZ
One of the first steps to attract or nurture these Fortune 500s: building a new international airport. Lindbergh is our achilles heal.
At present the people running our city/county government and the vocal majority are conservative baby boomers nearing their golden years. They are San Diego's biggest NIMBYs bitching, complaining and shooting down any kind of idea that seems off the wall to them (like a Miramar International Airport or a Brown Field Cargoport or the project that'll potentially block their views). They are the ones that have kept San Diego from reaching its full potential.
As they expire over this decade we need to warm up the next generations into thinking that we ain't Mayberry anymore. We need to educate them, get them familiar with the idea of Miramar being our next airport or even a floatport off the Pacific. That way it wouldn't seem so "out of the box" to them.
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I completely agree with this, babyboomers have been holding this metro area back big time. They fight any big project because they are already sitting pretty, they have made their cash and have butloads of equity in their homes.
Well what about us?? The people in our teens, 20's, and 30's look at the legacy the babyboomers have left for us! And eburress is right, it isn't that "San Diego the city" has done anything great. Our downtown is booming because of our weather, hilly geography, and beaches. People want good weather and views, that is why downtown has blown up.
Hell imagine, if Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, or Toronto had our weather, think how popular they would be, everyone would be flooding there. Anyway, corporate expansion is greatly needed here and I think eburress and Mongonzo or right... Out with the boomers