The main selling point of cities is that people pay taxes in exchange for a suite of public services unavailable out in the sticks. When the equilibrium between taxes and services breaks, people have no reason to stay.
Why do I mention this? Oh, no reason. It’s just that one full week after the most recent significant snowfall, at least tens of thousands of Indianapolis residents are still living on treacherous streets where snow and ice threaten bodily injury and property damage for anyone attempting passage.
Indianapolis in 2020 scrapped its old system of hiring private plows to remove snow deeper than six inches in favor of a new plan to stop plowing out-of-the-way neighborhood streets altogether. It’s not that your side street hasn’t been plowed yet . It’s that the city is never going to plow it…