they moved here because of mashiach

The Jews of Tiberias have a new fight on their hands - the municipal swimming pool has been opened and will remain open and operational on Shabbos. The Haredi community, and seemingly at least some of the traditional community, are upset about this.

Tiberias was largely a secular and traditional city, and in recent years has seen some influx, and the development, of a Haredi community.

The fight itself does not interest me. Their problem. Happens all over the place and is an example of why some cities refuse to allow new construction plannign for Haredi communities. They regularly reference the fight sin Bet Shemesh, but it happens all over. Haredi communities get built and they start changing things that have always been done in the area as they gain political power in the area and refuse to approve of businesses open on Shabbos and the like, or even before they get that far (as actually holding significant political power) they still fight it along the way..

What interests me is one of the things said in the fight.

Someone, upset at the situation, complained that the religious people have only come to Tiberias because "they were told that Mashiach would come via Tiberias".
source: Kikar

Not only is it a funny reason to move to a city, as even if Mashiach comes there first it obviously wont be his final destination, it is also a funny complaint about people who moved to that city.

It is nobody's business why I moved to a city and bought my house there. And whether my reason for moving to a city was a good one or a bad one does not increase or decrease my rights in that city.

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