- Neverending road construction.
- Corrupt local officials who take kickbacks from the neverending road construction.
- Massive public transit projects that seek to fix a problem that doesn’t really exist.
- Incompetant construction contractors who can’t get the job right the first time, and have to redo it five times in as many years.
- Parking Nazis who ticket local residents for parking on the street, even when their car has a parking permit.
- Incompetant bureaucrats in city hall who fail to renew parking permits.
- Insanely bad drivers.
- Selective enforcement of the law by local police.
- Attempts by the local police to enforce laws that don’t actually exist, especially regarding front lawn gardens.
- A hidden tax placed in everyone’s utility bill to pay for Google Fiber, when it turned out the city had lost the blueprints Google needed to install the fiber network, and thus had to pay more than $1 million to map it out.
- The Google Fiber deal in general. Very bad deal for the city.
- The fact that most of the rental properties are owned by two or three families, who jack up prices in order to rip off students.
- Corrupt city officials who grant building permits that violate residential zoning laws in exchange for kickbacks, after ignoring public outcry from local residents.
There are more reasons, I’m sure, but these are the ones I have direct experience with.
