Business Review Managers:
Concerning your article "First Time 'Developer' Takes On South
End apartments" found online at http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2006/05/22/story6.html
I fully understand that you people from the suburbs have a perceived
vested interest in downgrading the neighborhoods of downtown Albany
through negative reporting. It is only by maintaining the falsehood
that Albany is an undesirable place to live that you can support
the illusion that your suburban properties are valuable commodities.
Your suburbs are heavily subsidised by our City. Every day hordes
of you people drive here and loot us of our wealth, which you carry
back to your ticky tacky badly built tract houses. This is the only
way you can maintain your unsustainable municipalities.
But what if the price of gasoline rises so much that it becomes
too expensive to drive every day to loot our City? What will happen
to the price of real estate in automobile slums like Clifton Park?
Don't worry, that scenario is just around the corner. Thanks to
the first amendment, you people have every right to borrow the phrase "hardscrabble
South End neighborhood" from the Hearst-owned Times Union. In
a few years, we shall see if you people are still using that phrase.
I am happily looking forward to day that you arrogant suburbanites
are desperately searching for affordable real estate in my "hardscrabble
neighborhood. I am also looking forward to reading references to "the
ghettos of Clifton Park and Colonie."
By the way, it is because of such slanted reporting and anti-urban
propaganda that I do not subscribe to or even bother to read your
uninformative rag.
Sincerely,
Daniel W. Van Riper
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