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Originally Posted by Lakepilot
My sister lived in Lynn and a methadone clinic was opened on her short residential street. They had a very hard time selling their houseand when they finally did they lost a lot of money. It was not a family friendly place and it was not Disneyland.
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OK, but on the other hand, what happens to real property values when the neighborhood has a rampant drug problem, with drug houses?
For an extreme example, consider many of our major American cities, e.g. The Bronx: while blocks levelled, demolished, with scores of abandoned buildings; burnt hulks of cars left untowed on the streets.
The problem, people, is not the methadone clinics, which are innocuous and well meaning responses to a major problem, the problem is the availability and use of hard drugs.
Junkies are victims; the trafficers should be hunted down and penalties enhanced, to include the death penalty if deemed appropriate.
There can be no happy ending here.