Today, shoppers have the option of buying products at suburban businesses and those located within city limits. While many have long chosen to do business at suburban retailers, due to their convenience with ample parking and lower prices, one can choose to all together strategically avoid retailers within city limits.

Urban areas have been in trouble for 50 years now, and it’s increasingly obvious that things are not getting better in our cities, but instead are getting worst. City politicians are pushing higher taxes, more fines, and more revenue out of working folks, supposedly for the benefit of the people. It’s increasingly obvious that city politicians needs to be deprived of their economic bases, to be taught a lesson in reality.

The fact is that boycotts were successful at bringing down apartheid in South Africa, could help reform out-of-touch politicians in our country’s cities. Your choice of where you shop can help change our down-trodden cities.