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It seems to me that you see this problem mostly in suburbs. People didn't buy a house, they bought a lifestyle. A particular lifestyle that has no room for even
by enjo 10y ago
It seems to me that you see this problem mostly in suburbs. People didn't buy a house, they bought a lifestyle. A particular lifestyle that has no room for even the slightest inconvenience from others. During my suburban days I was always sort of amazed by the entitlement people had around me.
I saw near fistfights over people parking in front of other peoples houses. Or a particularly memorable argument in which people shouted out of their kitchen window at a group of kids who were doing nothing but sitting on a deck talking at 8:00 PM. My HOA sued the town I lived in because someone wanted to build an apartment building about 1/4 mile from the front entrance of the subdivision (don't want "those" people living nearby after all).
The HOA also was part of a larger group opposing the extension of a light rail line that would connect our town to the larger metroplex. The same argument was used in that case, "those people" would be able to come up and cause crime in our neighborhood.
I'm not surprised that the people in the article believe that they have a right to a quiet street.
- awm 10y agoI've noticed though that the perspective matters. If somebody start complaining about how I parked in front of their house, a typical response is: "I can't believe how annoyed this guy is getting over me just parking here for 15 minutes." The homeowner however doesn't care that its only 15 minutes of your time, since for him/her its probably all day :-/
- enjo 10y agoBut it's not their parking spot to get mad over.
- warcher 10y agoWell, you see a little microcosm of how the whole San Francisco housing boondoggle was born. New York's building codes in particular are... stunning in their complexity. Same shit, different city. People get real, real, real hot about their houses. And their parking. And people driving by their house, or walking past their house on the sidewalk. Or what gets built across the street from their house... et cetera.
- arprocter 10y agoIrony being that without private transportation a lot of US suburbs would be unlivable in the first place