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How to improve your community: import some gay people.

Autodidact

Autodidact

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Here is a list of the 20 gayest cities in the U.S. Some interesting associated findings:

a growing body of research suggests that considerable benefits accrue to those cities and metro areas that have sizeable, visible concentrations of gay men and lesbians. Income levels are higher, as are many other measures of life satisfaction.

metro areas with higher proportions of gay men and lesbians also have higher housing values.

more open and tolerant attitudes toward LGBT people (as well as to other groups) was one of two key factors, along with natural beauty and environmental quality, that corresponded with higher levels of satisfaction with and emotional attachment to a community.
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So improve your town today, and welcome some gay people.

Well, what's really going on, according to the authors:

But places that attract gay people and lesbians tend to have the same open-minded attitudes and business styles that foster innovation. A visible LGBT community is the proverbial “canary in the coal mine,” signaling openness to new ideas, new business models, and diverse and different thinking kinds of people—precisely the characteristics of a local ecosystem that can attract cutting-edge entrepreneurs and mobilize new companies.
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Panda

Panda

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Premium Member
I agree with the authors about what is really going on it seems to make sense to me.
 
Adramelek

Adramelek

Setian
Premium Member
When I worked for CFS, two of my fellow co-workers were gay. I must tell you that these two guys were the most fun, hard working, tolerant people I had ever worked with. They never once condemned me for my personal Setian/Satanic beliefs. Whenever I got stressed out on the job, they could always manage to calm me down and even make me laugh. The one guy I know had a crush on me, but I was flattered by it, not offended. Most homosexuals I have ever met have always seemed to be more honorable and trustworthy than a lot of heterosexuals I've known.
 
Eliot Wild

Eliot Wild

Irreverent Agnostic Jerk
Actually, this is certainly not an attempt to belittle the OP, but I thought all this was already common knowledge.

I remember seeing some television sitcom almost a decade or more ago that indicated this very thing. I cannot remember which show it was, for the life of me, but I believe some neighbors of the main characters were selling their house, and the main characters were trying desperately to get a gay couple to move in next door so that property values would go up, or something like that.

Anyway, I find this easy to believe based on other sources, as well as personal experience. Personally, I'd much rather hang out with my gay friends. Of course, this is purely selfishness, as I find that gay guys not only attract women, but my chances for success increase significantly as the only hetero in the group. Of course, it is disconcerting to find that most of my success stories end with the girl being forced to settle with my company when she really wanted to meet the cute guy that she didn't know was gay. So it goes.
 
Autodidact

Autodidact

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Yes, there's a whole pattern that happens, so much so that some cities are trying to lure gay people to move there. It goes like this: run-down urban neighborhood with high crime and decaying old houses. Gay men buy old houses cheap. and renovate them into showplaces. They don't have such a big problem with the high crime, want to be in the city, and have the time and taste to renovate. Home values go up, other hip singles start buying houses, crime goes down, families move in now that it's safer and voila: urban renewal through fabulousness.
 
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Duck

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Autodidact said:
Yes, there's a whole pattern that happens, so much so that some cities are trying to lure gay people to move there. It goes like this: run-down urban neighborhood with high crime and decaying old houses. Gay men buy old houses cheap. and renovate them into showplaces. They don't have such a big problem with the high crime, want to be in the city, and have the time and taste to renovate. Home values go up, other hip singles start buying houses, crime goes down, families move in now that it's safer and voila: urban renewal through fabulousness.
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And then the gays move out because of all the obnoxious children and right wingers that come with them.
 
Smoke

Smoke

Done here.
Sunstone said:
Colorado needs you and John, Smoke. Pack your bags --- we're drafting you.
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Thanks, but you've got way too many Evangelicals there. I'm going to stick with my fantasy of escaping to South America. :)

By the way, have you seen the new polling data on Prop 8 in California? A majority of Latin Catholics are in favor of marriage equality, and a HUGE majority of Latin Protestants are against. The Catholic Church's power is slipping even among its own faithful, which is good for Latin America. :)
 
DallasApple

DallasApple

Depends Upon My Mood..
Gay "people" are not only welcome in my town but my home..Its not "becuase" they are gay..Its just people that got brought into my life that I love..I dont love "them" espeicially" because "they are "gay" ..its just they are who they are as individuals...."they " happen to be gay..I know a lot of "them".

Just like all "normal" people...If I screw up would somone say it "because shes hetero"///

Im tired of the whole mess...Its silly..

I guess Im "statisticky"

Love

Dallas
 
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