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POVERTY IS A FEATURE NOT A BUG (lemmy.ml)
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[–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I think it’s more so that people don’t want an apartment complex built in their backyard, not that they are opposed to them being built in an area where there is proper infrastructure

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    NIMBY!!

    Where do you place the proper infrastructure then? It’s always going to be in someone’s “back yard” as you put it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Well there’s considerable difference between an apartment complex in a suburb not designed for heavy traffic and less developed areas where there’s room for expansion for infrastructure.

    We can’t expand roads in my area, either for an extra lane (which I know is a sin) or for buses because it would be right up on houses at that point.

    However, just a few miles down the road on the main drag, there’s undeveloped land that would be perfect. Build it there.

    When I say “backyard” I mean literally in your backyard. Instead of name calling and downvoting, have a fucking conversation and ask in a respectful manner what somebody means. Stop being a douche because you automatically assume somebody who thinks slightly differently than you is wrong.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Well articulated. I'm not from the US, but I've seen housing developments go sideways when they built four 10-story blocks (not in somebody's back yard, but in an area without proper infrastructure) and after 1000ish people had moved in there were 1 hour long queues just to get out of the complex because there was only one road with one lane per direction. And the only bus stop was not really reliable.

    This was not built in the middle of the city because of land availability (and huge prices even if there was land available - you're near the metro and tram and a bus stop? pay 50% more. oh, you're near a park too? pay 50% more on top of that). Should we just tear down old buildings in low density areas in the city to make room for big blocks? Some might be worth tearing down because of age and overall condition, but good luck getting people to move out.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    lmao make up your mind

    do you want to have a conversation without name calling? Then leave out the name calling or kindly get fucked

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tired of being nice. I do it all the time and it’s never returned in kind.

    Lemmy users act like this is a different place, that it’s a more wholesome internet, what a joke. It’s as bad as anywhere else.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    I wasn’t being mean spirited with my original comment, it was a legitimate question. Whenever I hear people say something like “I don’t want that!” I like to find out why. It’s just curiosity. Sorry if it came across mean.

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