Honestly, I don't hate it. I dont hate how it looks, it can be completely stunning and emotion altering. However, what I do hate is the upkeep of everything. The sidewalks, the driveways, cleaning off the cars, needing two sets of tires, paying for extra maintenance on vehicle because of rust AND salt, and then don't even get me started on the horrible management of the roads themselves and them needing to be remaining clear, taken care of, salted, repaired in warmer months, etc. And yet for most of us, they aren't.

Those are the things that make me hate that. Even as beautiful as it is, it disrupts so many things and becomes so dangerous because of mismanagement that is out of the common resident's hands to be able to do anything about other than take care of and push more money at the things that get affected by that and the mismanagement.

Honestly this feels like some moderately decent written, buzz-word containing copy made for feel-good political promises that are (a) not feasible and (b) never going to happen even if they were.

The first problem I have with this is the very important factor that the money would have to come from somewhere in most cases. Unless we're going to take a more serious approach to the prison-labor topic, this wouldn't be all too feasible. Which honestly, for many reasons, I think should be looked at more seriously anyway. From a correction, reform, and even imprisonment angle, allowing prisoners to work inside (in most cases) the prison or even outside the prison for wages that can go towards their outside dues (child support included) and debt, their inside commissary, their outside family needs, and other things would be worth discussing at length. Especially since this aids to exit-rehabilitation because a lot of work would require training and this opens the gate to what an inmate may occupationally be able to do post-release. However, for so many reasons this sounds like it may prove functionally unfeasible -- especially where it comes to decision makers actually putting something beneficial in place rather than leave everything the same because their pockets are the ones being lined.

The second problem I have with this is that it probably won't happen. And I say this because there are other systems in place for wrongful death, pain and suffering, etc. But not only that, but there are also systems in place currently in 2023 that are supposedly erected and churned to work for people that are supposed to get any kind of support as it is and yet arrears still climb in many cases and in many of those cases is still left unchecked despite it supposedly being a crime and many other things. Yes, cases are pursued all the time for arrears and wage garnishment, litigation, jail time are imposed in some of those cases but not all and it's fair to say that many people owed support won't see that support and it's also fair to say that the system in some of those cases isn't going to or will claim to be unable to (falsely or factually) do anything about it. So, another system of support when all other cases of support are teeter-totters at best and fundamentally incapable of being relied upon seems like either a failure waiting to happen or even an idea that will never happen to the way that they're making it seem like it will happen if it even happens at all.

"Functional Families"

The sad thing about this is, there are a lot of people out there that will tell you that "blood ties" are worthless in a lot of cases. It's why there are such jokes as, "my family puts the fun in dysfunctional." Sure, some families are great, but the amount of divorce, separation, familial chaos, domestic violence, etc can honestly speak for itself. A lot of times, "blood family" and family "by marriage", amounts nothing in comparison to what a lot of us refer to as "found family" or the "family of our own choosing".

Not allowing people to live with whom they want as well as whom may help not only then but the overall community is asinine. At a time when money is what it is, prices are what they are, homelessness is what it is, social injustices run rampant, and people are tired from four years of living in a pandemic, things like this are just going to make things worse and shows how little care that overseers bearing power have for the common people. This is ridiculous.