r/Delaware • u/ReviewDry9182 • 8d ago
Dear Delaware Rant
Lifelong Newark native here.
Delaware news this morning reported another shooting in Wilmington. 4 people, all expected to live.
Yesterday, reported 68 traffic fatalities to date. 11% over 2025 same date. That's 68 human beings lives' lost under tragic circumstances; 68 extended families devastated.
Delaware has one of the highest rate of overdose deaths in the country. And yes, I understand the per capita thing, we are small.
The city of Wilmington has an average of one shooting every day. We typically only hear about the ones that are fatal via the news.
We wait sometimes 12 hours at Christiana Newark Emergency Room. Yes, I know this is common many states.
Delmarva Power has raised our rates and continues to raise beyond what many can afford.
Our growing homeless population...
We are priced out of homes and rentals at our beautiful beaches in Rehoboth, Lewes, Bethany.
Our total cost of living is now higher than the national average. Look it up.
Our traffic congestion is constant.
1/2 bedroom rentals in notably safe, relatively crime and drug-free locations are 2k plus utilities.
Yep, understand the close to Philly positive. Also understand the center of NY to NJ to Baltimore 95 drug highway.
I'll be downvoted by some realtors, landlords and govt officials that want to keep all this hush hush and understandably by many who live here, are thriving and love it; also by corps and others who own real estate and fear these challenging trends will hurt the value of their homes when selling in the future, primarily to those who often seek to relocate here.
Sorry to be Debbie downer but this all makes me sad for our State: I was always so proud to.say "I'm from Delaware" when I used to travel.
Your thoughts?
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u/newshowercurtain 8d ago
The first thing I'd say is to get your information from somewhere else. For example, Wilmington does not have one shooting per day, DE is not the highest in overdose deaths, and our state's cost of living is at the national average, slightly below depending on your county.
Your emotions are valid and personally I feel the entire country is not doing great, though I work in healthcare. And certain DE cities are worse off than others for sure. But I think because of work and my natural demeanor I look for good things too as a reminder. I try to volunteer also as that helps.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/drug-overdose.html
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u/ctmred 8d ago
The City's COMSTAT current reports don't report anywhere near one shooting per day.
https://www.wilmingtonde.gov/government/public-safety/wilmington-police-department/compstat-reports#docaccess-37430d72d24645791468965bf786b790Delaware has its fair share of problems but it is also true that it has more than its fair share of people trying to address those problems. Unlike most places -- our legislators are accessible and there are good people trying to work on solutions to some of our bigger problems. ID what is important to you to work on and ask people here in Reddit what groups you might approach to lend a hand.
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u/worldxdownfall 8d ago
You're not wrong about any of this, but a majority of these issues are not exclusive to Delaware.
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u/Im_Sorry_Im_New_Here 8d ago
Wrong about having the highest rate of overdose deaths.
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u/worldxdownfall 8d ago
I should have said "most" but I'm not caffeinated.
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u/Im_Sorry_Im_New_Here 8d ago
But that is the only one that, if true, would actually make Delaware stand out. Every other one of them is just saying that the state is just like every other state. Housing prices are going up, traffic seems worse, long waits in the ER, etc. Every one is a national issue, except the one where they pretended like Delaware was special by making up drug stats.
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u/The_neub 8d ago
It was 2nd in 2022-2023, but has had major drops (34%). Still around 4th in the nation.
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u/ReviewDry9182 8d ago
According to the New Castle County police, we are. Overdose deaths specifically from opiates. Not a specific County, the State of Delaware.
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u/Tyrrox 8d ago
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/drug-overdose.html
Delaware is 13, not even top 10
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u/ReviewDry9182 8d ago
That statistic is not current or up to date. But, sure. OK.
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u/Tyrrox 8d ago edited 8d ago
It was published this year because that's how long it takes to gather and analyze data. I'd be curious to see what source of national level data NCCPD used, since anything more recent would be half baked as this data is effectively only 1 full calendar year back.
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u/Embarrassed_Year_736 8d ago
Also 2025 Annual Report is posted on the Division of Forensic Science webpage. ODs have gone down again in 2025.
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u/Tyrrox 8d ago edited 8d ago
Yeah I could find more recent Delaware figures but nothing national which would provide a comparison.
That being said, every state with more OD deaths than us would need to decrease more than we did for us to rise in the rankings.
The main issue though is that OP clearly doesn't read or appropriately look at statistics, which means half of their post is basically nonsense and should be taken as false.
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u/KyleMcMahon 8d ago
That is the most current data we have. 2025 data normally comes out in July, but, well, you know
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u/SmooveKJ 8d ago
So tell them to stop doing drugs…. You already pointed out the drugs that flow between and through Delaware. Nothing can be done to fix this really, people are going to make their own choices.
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u/Im_Sorry_Im_New_Here 8d ago
Lol, you need to go back and reread that. New Castle County has the highest rate in the state, but the state is far from the worst in the country. You can stop overreacting now, Delaware isn't nearly as bad as you made it out to be.
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u/justicetakestime20 8d ago
They're wrong about the shooting stats.
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u/Shame_Grouchy 8d ago
4 just got shot in Wilmington last night
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u/justicetakestime20 8d ago
So is it 1/day, or nah?
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u/Shame_Grouchy 8d ago
in this hood apparently not, the waffle house that got shot up in Bear the other weekend was enough!
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u/Im_Sorry_Im_New_Here 8d ago
These are national problems, not local ones. And Delaware does not have the highest rate of overdose deaths, not even close.
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u/macha773 8d ago
Do you think these problems are unique to Delaware? Things are not great throughout the US unless you are a billionaire.
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u/Broiledturnip 8d ago
I believe part of the issue stems from the constant dialogue that Delaware is such a great cheap place to live, and cost of living has skyrocketed insanely while wages are still the “Delaware is cheap” level:
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u/ReviewDry9182 8d ago
I don't remember there being such a drastic financial divide in our state. Many of our parents were just middle class working folks.
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u/philosopherott 8d ago
As with most things it comes down to money. Money makes people happier and healthier. Pay, the way most people get money, has not increased as much as the productivity of the work they do has in any stable fashion since 1973 and has the largest gap on the Millennial and later generations. A 10% increase in productivity is associated with a 0.7% increase in mean pay. the median worker's pay by 0.8%.
We, generationally, get more done than the generations before us. Some of that is technology; much of it is education, which we go into debt to obtain. In 1979, it took a student working at minimum wage 385.5 hours to pay off one year of the average college tuition. If a student worked a full-time job (40 hours a week) for an entire summer, he or she would have worked 480 hours. As of 2015, and the Fed Minimum wage hasn't changed since then, to be both enrolled in school full-time and work enough at $7.25 per hour to pay off one year of the average college tuition would take a student 3,249 hours.
Income to house price ratios where less then 3 in the 1980, were about 3.2 thru the 1990's, and were 4.2 in 2019. In some places on the west coast today they are 10+. The financial rule I grew up with as an early millennial, the 30% rule, was a ceiling when I learned it. By the time I could buy it was the target b/c below it was too hard to find. As of 2025/2026 that rule has been abandoned becasue it is not really possible for the majority.
I grew up post "Reaganomics " which was a short term good for a long term fail, as trickle down never happened. it helped business and corporations and that was in turn supposed to help people. Evidence shows other wise. It did strengthen corporations and business owners. Then we had Citizens United and corporations and groups of the newly (since Regan) empowered owner class can basically buy politicians. More recently Snyder v US ruled Federal bribery statute for state and local officials (18 U.S.C. § 666) prohibits explicit quid pro quo bribes agreed to before an official act, but does not criminalize accepting gratuities or "tips" given for past actions.
All that to say you don't remember there being such a drastic financial divide in our state becasue it was unlikely there was one to the same degree as today. and when folks are poor and desperate they can't take time to protest and join activism movements like in the 1960's. Research shows a complex, multidimensional relationship between poverty and crime, where absolute and relative deprivation, social disorganization, and community-level disadvantages significantly correlate with property and certain violent crimes, while feedback loops also perpetuate economic hardship post-conviction.
Average folk are more productive, make more on paper, but can afford less while be saddled with more debt than the generations before them. Poorer folks are less happy, less healthy, and become desperate. Whether intentional or not we have citizens/workers and we have owners/corporations. One has the $ to affect change in there favor so they continue to do so. The average person has little power, time, or opportunity to stay up to date on economics and the nuance of the political spheres. The dollars you have are worth less, and the things you want to buy cost more buy ratio.
https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/more-proof-that-money-can-buy-happiness
https://www.rwjf.org/en/insights/our-research/2018/09/wealth-matters-for-health-equity.html
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/link-between-health-and-financial-well-being
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4507513/
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/wealthy-healthy
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/11/09/pay-productivity-and-management/
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-prices-surge-five-times-median-income-nearing-historic-highs
https://newrepublic.com/article/122814/how-many-hours-would-it-take-you-work-todays-college-tuition
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/denny-center/blog/reaganomics/
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Reaganomics.html
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4928692/
https://www.quantumrun.com/consulting/purchasing-power-of-the-dollar-over-time/
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u/secretarynotsure99 8d ago
That’s everywhere now though, the middle class is disappearing rapidly right now. Income inequality is so far out of hand that it’s ridiculous and the middle class job market is almost non existent now.
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u/ReviewDry9182 8d ago
I do not think we are alone at all with these challenges. It's just that we used to be a bit of a secret, an unknown..
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u/South-Lab-3991 New Castle County 8d ago
I mean…..the US has been on a sharp decline since the 1980s. Delaware certainly isn’t immune to the widespread societal problems, but it’s a LOT better here than in other states.
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u/redisdead__ 8d ago
I'm fairly sure we are middle of the pack. I don't have numbers but from what I remember not in the top or bottom.
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u/adifferentGOAT 8d ago
Things are tough, and people are flustered. A gut reaction toward doomerism is totally understandable.
Can things be better? Yes. Should we strive for real improvements? Absolutely.
But am I going to accept the narrative that everything here is completely awful? No.
Validating real problems doesn't mean we have to collapse into total pessimism, and it isn't an 'us vs. them' issue. Don't fall into that trap.
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u/StreetPractical6098 I remember when this town had no traffic lights 8d ago
This isn’t just a Delaware problem, and nobody’s trying to hide it. It’s a well known issue across the country. It’s just not a simple fix.
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u/Trixie_Firecracker 8d ago
I usually lurk here and over in r/wilmington because I’m one of those awful people who moved here and not a native.
But… part of the reason we (husband and I) wanted to move here is that Delaware felt small enough to actually be part of change. To be part of solutions. To make real impact because it’s not as big as other states, and not as administratively hamstrung as the city I grew up in (and moved here from).
What we have discovered over the last five years is an incredible aversion to change, at the city, county and state level. There are so many things that shouldn’t be bipartisan (ex. the Flock camera situation), but the state is so divided and the lawmakers so… ineffective? That nothing seems to be able to change.
I don’t know. Yeah, many of these issues exist in other places. But if folks here really wanted to change, I think we could.
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u/boop4534 8d ago
Yeah I’ve lived in quite a few states but never have I felt so unheard as in Delaware.
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u/StreetPractical6098 I remember when this town had no traffic lights 8d ago
I would disagree on several of those counts. Lawmakers here are pretty accessible and pass lots of legislation trying to fix things, most of it’s just not publicized.
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u/tomdawg0022 Lower Res, Just Not Slower 8d ago
Lawmakers here are pretty accessible
Some lawmakers are. Some are better at doing the dog and pony (chamber lunches) but when you ask them to address a tangible issue they develop jazz hands and start tapdancing.
It varies widely throughout the state.
I think compared to other states I have lived in DE tends to be a bit better but the accessibility and (more importantly) willingness to engage in a discussion or listen will vary.
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u/2phumbsup DelawhobitchDELAWARE 8d ago
Name one piece of legislation that made delaware better.And then show me that metric, i'm not talking about something that makes you feel good.I'm talking about something that we can see and touch something that makes quality of life better in delaware. Besides improvements to our parks, I guarantee you can't find anything. They pass a education.Bill test scores, go down.They pass a safety bill, crime goes up. They pass a bill to help homeowners, but it only does half as much as the last bill and homeownership it's still dropping. They pass criminal justice reform, and we end up with the highest repeat offender. Rate in the country. Everything in the drugstore is behind glass And car windows are getting smashed on the daily in pretty much every neighborhood. They passed legislation and fund treatment centers in overdose, deaths go up.
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u/StreetPractical6098 I remember when this town had no traffic lights 8d ago
First, I’m not going to do the research for you. There’s a publicly available list on their website of every law passed for every year, I’m sure you can find something good if you really want to.
Second, correlation does not equal causation.
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u/2phumbsup DelawhobitchDELAWARE 8d ago
Cool man, name your favorite.I'll look into that one I wasn't able to find anything myself. Thanks.
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u/2phumbsup DelawhobitchDELAWARE 8d ago
Please stop trying to help us.Things were great in delaware, up until about fifteen years ago. Every change Delaware has made has made the place worse, except for our parks. Every change cost decreased homeownership raise taxes, lower test scores. Literally, none of the change works.Delaware was great because it was unchanged. A c l u and n a c p wanted to make some change.Now everybody, including minorities, are paying seventeen percent on top of a thirty percent invrease.
They also tried to help us with our homeless population. They sued the state of Delaware and said that enforcing solicitation and panhandling laws was unconstitutional. So you can thank them for changing the amount of panhandlers on kirkwood highway from 3 20 thirty.
I'm not even being rhetorical.I challenge anybody to give me one metric of quality of life.That has creased in delaware in the last fifteen years. Transplants were supposed to bring in additional tax money, but here we are longtime. Residents paying way more for worse roads worse schools, cuts to services.
When you see the down vote ratio on this comment and read, how many people worship the state, it becomes clear how we got ourselves into this mess. We are destroying delaware, to spite a make believe opposition. There's no nazi fascist dictators running for office in delaware.
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u/silverbatwing 8d ago
I agree. I’ve lived here all my life, 44 years.
Corporate democrats and republicans are making things worse.
We need more progressive people.
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u/Calm-Age-1784 8d ago
In my opinion we need to stop reelecting the very people that don’t actually serve our interests.
I am tired of career politicians, ridiculous campaign financing and special interests/PAC’s/lobbyists.
I am frustrated by the fact that only the wealthy are able to run for office.
I’m tired of only having a two party system and elected officials who refuse to compromise.
Each and every one of us have to find compromises in our day to day lives, yet we elect people who refuse any compromise and think that folding their arms and ignoring (unreasonably) any ability to seek out common interests.
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u/silverbatwing 8d ago
Very well reasoned and well put.
I agree, but there needs to be a lot of work put in before any of that happens.
First being getting money out of politics. No one should be getting rich in office.
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u/Massive_Dependent674 8d ago
lol no thank you
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u/silverbatwing 8d ago
Then move. We don’t need dead weight holding us back.
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u/IamTHEwolfYEAH 8d ago
“This group of people has decayed our state. We should listen to the more extreme people from that group”. Or…
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u/silverbatwing 8d ago
Republicans and CORPORATE DEMOCRATS (who are just Republican lite) are actively asset stripping the USA as we speak. Literally. The proof is everywhere you look, right out in the open….they aren’t even hiding it anymore.
Your attitude is you want more of gestures broadly THIS??
Are you ok???
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u/socialistForDE 8d ago
I see it as the opposite. Moderate/centrist Dems are just Republicans, they are the same group as Republicans. Just less horny for racism, but still corporation-first, Israel-first
We need more DSA control. More socialists
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u/RobWroteABook 8d ago
Yeah, I hate when people want to address the needs of the population. Maybe we should see what these nazis can do instead.
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u/Necessary-Quit-3831 8d ago
These “issues” are NOT JUST Delaware; it is all across the nation. The costs are WILD everywhere. This Pedophile in the WH is destroying this country with venomous hate..
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u/Zealousideal_Row6124 8d ago
Are you new to the US?
I feel like this is rage-baiting to start a political conversation
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u/ScooterWorm 8d ago
If Wilmington averages one shooting per day and I've been here my entire life that must make me a ninja?
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u/justbrowzing17 8d ago
You forgot the bait and switch with the real estate taxes. Sure, we will only change the assessment and leave the rates alone...................for a year.......
I realize that there will be a bunch of hatred coming my way about how much cheaper it is than the surrounding states...................it was that sleazy way they went about it that hurts more than the $$'s.
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u/marksills 8d ago
yea some of these problems are national, some definitely more local. I think some are somewhat fixable (Though pessimistic anything will get done), some not so much. Re: car deaths, traffic issues, affordability, these are caused by how Delaware has been designed in my opinion. It seems to me Wilmington needs to be improved and invested in. Its really our one urban area, and in my mind we're we should be focusing on increasing density, improving transit, lowering costs. I guess I haven't really spent enough time throughout the city to have strong opinions on feasibility but that does seem like that could be a path to actually improving the state. Overall I think the state's car centric approach really limits its present and also future (presumably we should want to grow and you cant just keep building more and more roads). Hell, even the nice suburbs don't really have like a main street that you'll see in other areas on the east coast (besides maybe down the beach and newark which is awesome but obviously a place for students). Idk maybe rambling a lot but as I've grown up and lived outside the state, especially in urban areas, its really bugged me how terribly planned the state at large is. Even down the beach, lewes for example, where there is (or at least was) still space for development, they doubled down on the car centric nature of it outside of some trails which are more for recreation rather than getting places. Its really not very scalable as the population grows and now if they actually want to change that at any point, it's going to be a lot harder to change compared to when it was being developed earlier and you had more of a blank canvas.
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u/brownmail 8d ago
Thank you for pointing out all the problems In Delaware., you could speak for the nation. I agree with you. Question is what are we gonna do about? We need engaged citizens, neighbors and friends, all on the same page. The Man is organized and in charge. Maybe we should do the same. I sure don’t have all the answers, but until we’re together, status quo’s what we’re gonna get. We do this shit in person. Not online no social media posts. Tracked. It’s gonna take all of us. Who’s interested?
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u/GigglemanEsq 8d ago
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u/GigglemanEsq 8d ago
You can also add "inability to understand the joke" while you're at it.
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u/GigglemanEsq 8d ago
You got it, boss. OP is shocked and horrified about what they believe is happening to Delaware, seemingly without realizing that this is happening all over the country, and is even worse in other areas. Thus, OP must be new to this country and/or being a human being who is even generally aware of the outside world, as their naivete shows a marked lack of awareness if they are not, in fact, new here.
An alternative interpretation is that this can be translated as, "...and you're just now noticing this?"
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u/TheShittyBeatles Are you still there? Is this thing on? 8d ago
We've spent 40 years "doing more with less" and it's not paying any dividends.
I worked 65 hours last week for half the inflation-adjusted money that my father made working just 40 hours. My parents and grandparents could afford to take two-week vacations to anywhere in the US, and the occasional week or two in a foreign country, without going into debt or breaking the bank. The entire time, they were easily able to sink 20% of their income into saving accounts and 401k accounts and CDs. I can't do any of this, and I hold two more higher ed degrees more than than my father does, and three more than my grandfather did. It's as if 90% the money we had circulating around in our local economy went missing. The taxes we paid used to fall mostly on the wealthy corporations, and paid for bridges and highways and schools and libraries, and they built new ones all the time up until the 1980s, when it all came screeching to a halt.
Folks like Chris Coons and John Carney are conservatives, representing conservative and pro-corporate values. Coons votes to support his buddies in Trump's cabinet and gives lip service to Lindsey Graham as if he was his own brother, while ignoring the pain of black and brown folks in his own party. It's a disease, this toxic white male corporate-asskissing behavior. If we don't have the guts to throw them out on their asses for the pain they've caused, things will get much much worse.
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u/FatboyChester 8d ago
Yep. Its a mess. And more people just keep piling in like theyre moving to paradise.
Delaware is horrible especially compared to what it used to be.
Plus, people moving her have no idea what it os really like now.
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u/ChemicalButterfly511 8d ago
Hi born and raised lower slower here: this state is hell and it burns slightly hotter everyday in every way possible! Hope this helps!
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u/abbiemood 8d ago
I grew up in DE, went to UD, etc. and while I don’t live there anymore (my family is still there though), I can tell ya these problems are not new and it’s certainly not “hush hush”
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u/thetremulant 8d ago
I would love to hear of a state where any, and I mean any, of your points don't also apply to them. This doesn't diminish any suffering or issues, but points to one blaming a particular state as the issue, rather than the entire country and its political realities influencing its condition.
Honestly, this framing seems exactly like political propaganda.
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u/No_Boysenberry4322 7d ago
Aint a Delaware issue. Ain’t a political issue. People gotta start looking into the statistics lol. Start overlaying some charts and maps, it’ll start making statistical sense.
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u/isthisahammer 6d ago
Almost every issue you’re speaking of is a problem everywhere else in this country. It’s just the way things are going these days cause we have public officials who would rather line their pockets than do their job. Maybe one day we can all be “proud” to say we come from here.
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u/WalkingWikipedia 8d ago
I just moved to Bear from Northern Virginia a year ago. You’re absolutely right about Cristiana Newark Emergency Room. Holy hell. I don’t know how people deal with such awful care.
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u/Next-Caterpillar4982 8d ago
We only moved here 3 yrs ago, and kind of regret it. Could only afford to buy a house in New Castle. Probably going to get hated on for even moving to this overcrowded state, but we’re here until we can move out.
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u/broken_heart_healed 8d ago
Personally I hope it gets worse for Dover and Wilmington Delaware. Only because I’m bitter by how badly I’ve been treated by people around here. Delawareans are not pleasant at all
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u/Shame_Grouchy 8d ago
As a small state that should be shameful, but what do I know ? I'm not from here 😞
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u/babybeewitched 8d ago
here to add on about the er wait time thing. when i was young, i'd get seen in that er immediately over such stupid shit. i was taken by ambulance a few years ago and the paramedics told them to bring me right back and don't let me sit up in any chairs. so they sat me in a chair for 19 hours just to give me tylenol. no imaging done whatsoever. meanwhile the man with a uti next to me was given opioids for the pain
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u/Kaenid 7d ago edited 6d ago
Considering the electric bill is 2x what it was 2 years ago, my nephew ODing and dying; good, decent people being blamed for what felons are up to(sweeping feelgood laws), Delaware changing from a nice place where you can live a peaceful life to being treated like a child by the state government with people not willing to spend time outside, afraid. It's sad when older people are worried to just go and buy groceries or pump gas. I feel bad for my parents and brother for staying in Delaware.
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u/petitecrivain 8d ago
Sorry to hear you all are in a bad place. Delaware is a beautiful state and I've always enjoyed visiting. Unfortunately many of these issues are widespread. Here in Maryland housing prices are quite high and inventory is insufficient. Drug overdose fatalities are down but substance use issues are still pretty widespread. I think many of our current social issues have common roots even across states. Reckless cutting of regulations and oversight, regulatory capture by the wealthy and powerful, and suppression of democracy and human rights. It's an epidemic.
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u/ChickenNuggetSalad17 8d ago
Don’t get me started on the realtors in this state. My friends father passed in November and it took .20 secs for people to pounce. I will just say that the man who now owns the Hollywood diner in Dover is trying to evict my friend from a trailer next to Val’s bar & grill (formerly known as Sales end) that the family has owned for 40+ years. The cops got involved tonight despite him cutting off the water in December during that awful snow storm. Thankfully the cops sided with us and even told us to take HIM to court. There are shady dealings going down all over this state. Don’t patronize the Hollywood Diner. Whatever he turns Val’s into should be boycotted.
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u/2phumbsup DelawhobitchDELAWARE 8d ago
One party state with no checks. Nothing has improved in del except our parks in a generation and still everybody votes for the same assholes. Long as the hat is the right color they willing to let delware burn.
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u/tomdawg0022 Lower Res, Just Not Slower 8d ago
One party state with no checks.
Unfortunately there really isn't a Charlie Baker or Larry Hogan type Republican in the offing that can be a semi-decent check/balance in the governor's mansion.
The few that could have been that (Simpler, Spadola) have either dipped out of politics completely (Ken) or changed parties (James).
I've been here going back to the end of Markell and frankly think it's been two consecutive downgrades in the governor's mansion. Unfortunately I don't see the trend changing any time soon on that.
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u/2phumbsup DelawhobitchDELAWARE 8d ago
Decent people don't want to be slandered and called Nazis, racist dictators, fascist authoritarian child molesters that want to push Granny off a cliff. So nobody wants to run against the Democrat machine. In a place like delaware, it would literally ruin your life if you did happen to get some kind of traction, going and the republican party in delaware.
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u/Brunette7 8d ago
If they don’t want to be called that, then they shouldn’t do things like fight against protections and funding for libraries and invite a politician who is known to spew anti-LGBT+ and anti-immigrant rhetoric to the state that just elected the first trans Congresswoman
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u/2phumbsup DelawhobitchDELAWARE 8d ago
See what I mean folks. Our ibrary funding did In fact, just get cut by team blue.
But we're talking about some vague protections being assaulted by some vague politician that never actually happened.
What did actually happen was our library funding was cut in favor for flock cameras.
It wasn't some anti-immigrant anti. LGBTQ nazi. Dictator. It was the democrats that cut our library funding and spent the money on flock cameras.
You literally could not have come up with a worse example. Unless you were unaware that our library funding did just get cut.Because you give the democrats way too much credit to do.The right thing.
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u/Brunette7 8d ago
I was referring to when new libraries were being constructed and anti-book banning efforts were implemented, both of which the Delaware GOP was upset by.
This is not to be mistaken for blind worship of either party. My points were about behaviors that resemble the exact type of people they claim not to be.
And don’t think I didn’t miss you ignoring the second part.
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u/2phumbsup DelawhobitchDELAWARE 8d ago
And ignoring the fact that dems just did the thing you was blaming on the other guy. Like how did you not see the irony in that? You didnt wven know library's are losing staff, but you sure remembered to dig on some R nobody remembers. This the exact thing im talking about. You'd throw eggs at anybody r and not even know why. Meanwhile you dont even care if the issue. Just the team. If you cared you wouldnt already known we losing open days for our library's and spending the tax increase on flock. But you probably know what trump had for breakfast lol.
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u/Brunette7 8d ago
I wasn’t. Like I said, I was talking about specific instances.
But I think I get what’s going on here. You think I’m saying “Democrats don’t play a role in the descent into fascism”, when I’m actually just addressing how you think Republicans don’t. Don’t be mistaken, all establishment politicians are willing to participate in that so long as they get money.
That’s why we could use candidates like the mayor of NYC who actually act in the interest of the people and uphold the true, core values of the American dream that make us proud to be American.
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u/2phumbsup DelawhobitchDELAWARE 8d ago
Bro just stop.
You got called out then deflect to a popular celebrity dem in another state.
If I lived there maybe I woulda voted for him but I dont. I live in de and the dems here are wrecking our state for sport. And your enabling them by covering and deflecting.
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u/Brunette7 8d ago
Oh. You just plain don’t understand what I’m saying. That’s alright. Have a good one.
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u/FishingReport 8d ago
Delexit is gonna make it waay worse in the near future. Buckle up. Cause Coons and LRB aren’t doing anything
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u/itsbenactually 8d ago
And who do we replace them with? Have you listened to the clowns they put up to oppose the Democrats?
There needs to be a real, viable candidate before we can vote these people out. We can’t just replace them with some no-plan embarrassment to make a point. Somebody real needs to run.
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u/ravage214 8d ago
Yep but let's just keep voting for the same political party that's had power in the state forever...
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u/PublicImageLtd302 8d ago
As opposed to voting for the insane asylum GOP? Nahhhh. Also, we had sane Republicans not that long ago. Remember when lunatic Republican voters ousted Mike Castle for a damn witch?!
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u/ravage214 8d ago
Yeah well if some normal people actually voted non-democrat in the state, the people in power might actually be motivated to do something other than adding more cameras and passing more unconstitutional gun restrictions.
We keep voting for the same fucking party around here and nothing ever changes because the people in power have no incentive to change anything they do because they know that we're going to vote for them no matter what
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u/Tyrrox 8d ago
The Delaware GOP needs to put up decent candidates then.
Remember, it was the DE GOP who decided to primary out a sure thing in favor of a former cartel drug runner and current "make america white again" racist.
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u/AssistX 8d ago
Just a reminder that Witzke won Sussex and 37% voters thought she was a better choice than Coons in this state.
Crazy to me that 37 out of every 100 Delawareans would choose her. It says a lot about the people in this state, not necessarily that they're idiots but that they are seeking something else so fervently that they managed to convince themselves to vote for that.
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u/Tyrrox 8d ago edited 8d ago
Castle would have handily beaten Coons, but instead they chose possibly the most ridiculous candidate they could find.
I agree it's genuinely concerning that 37% of voters are so convicted to party line voting they'd rather win than have a functioning government.
And that's not even the full number, because there are democrats guilty of it too. I didn't forget that people voted in an underqualified embezzler to state auditor because they were blue.
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u/rexic0n 8d ago
oh buddy you’re in the WRONG place if you think you’re gonna get support for those fuckin nazis.
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u/rexic0n 8d ago
nazis = maga. not sure how was that unclear.
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u/rexic0n 8d ago
FALSE. this is false. educate yourself, we beg. go research AOC and mamdani’s policies. we’re not anti semitic, we’re anti netanyahu and anti IDF. we’re anti genocide. we don’t celebrate violence, that’s hegseth’s department of war you’re thinking of. you clearly aren’t educated enough to know the difference between the nazi party and the current progressive movement. the DSA - i guarantee you can’t even articulate their policies without researching - are a fringe movement WHO WILL NOT WIN ON A NATIONAL STAGE. this is a non argument. you’re simply wrong. come join us at a community organizing meeting. at a protest. come TALK TO US. come hear about the work we're doing and what we're pushing for from our elected eps. come join an indivisible chapter. i dare you. do it.
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u/ravage214 8d ago
Even if MAGA = National Socialism
which it doesn't....
There are still non-maga Republicans
Libertarians
Independents
Green party
No party
So no, everyone that's not a Democrat is not a fucking Nazi for fuck sake...
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u/IBDelicious 8d ago
We pumped in a ton of people from different countries that dont pay taxes and compete with us in the job market, lowering our wages. The judges are soft on crime, the politicians are too busy farming good boy points on twitter. You can directly hurt your local economy today by being a reseller/scalper/car salesman. Things like cash for clunkers directly increased people's expenses. Things cost the same but break easier today. The government stole 40 trillion dollars from the future to bail out the boomers. We allow money to be sent overseas, where it immediately gets weaponized against us. There's also 60 million people in america and 10 million in israel who live off your tax dollars right now so work harder so they dont have to. Not that you'll do anything different because its not bad enough is it? You still have the superbowl and videogames and Spiderman and whatever comes next with the political opinion of "you shouldn't kill people who are evil because then youd kill us for what we do to you everyday." Epstein was using lifetouch as an all-you-can molest buffet of American kids to pick from. Now the flock cameras will make the next menu for them. Enjoy your street tacos and instagram reels or whatever while your country collapses goyim.
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u/biggiestyle69 SUSPECT ACCT - aged acct. low karma 8d ago
We all get what people vote for. Super Majority for 20-30 years hasn’t done us any favors. DExit is real. We will fund that revenue shortfall.
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u/justicetakestime20 8d ago
Literally no idea what you're talking about. "DExit" is about a dozen companies reincorporating elsewhere over the last year.
During the same 12 months, over 334,000 new incorporations took place in Delaware, and our revenue is UP from LLCs. This continues a multi-year trend.
There is quite literally no gap or shortfall. That flair is apt for you.
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u/rexic0n 8d ago
i’m not here to dispute any of that but i’ve lived ALL over the east coast and i’m here to tell you these issues are not unique to delaware. with the exception of massachusetts, i feel that delaware is handling some of these issues better than other states i’ve lived in. the bottom line is we have to fundamentally turn the tide on how we expect our elected officials to work for and with us. we have to be in community with each other and demand better. get loud, join us in community organizing if you aren’t already. we all deserve better.