Maybe don't illegally drive on the road?

Wisconsinites?

Probably spending it all on avocado toast.

Agreed this is not going through either way. Just annoying how anti growth this area is.

Wealthy people have money, money gets spent on service industries like restaurants and result in a higher income tax base.

Exactly, never seen a place where people thought a stuck burned out bridge was a cultural site.

No offense, but I moved from Chicago and nothing about this area is unique or worth preserving. Providence needs to modernize badly and people worried about brown sites next to an oil depot aren't going to be attracting outside investment and people.

Real ID

We moved to Barrington (har har) for a job as we previously lived in Chicago as well as a number of foreign countries as part of my job. My sense is that RI values how long you have "been here" above all else so my family found it quite difficult to integrate. In the end we found a nice Chicago ex-pat community as well as some Brits that were open to us.

I just chalk it up to people that never left. My neighbor still did daily runs with his high school friends which blows my mind.