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No one is proposing forbidding your nice half-acre, just allowing the rest of us to live on top of one another if we so choose.
by emiliobumachar 10y ago
No one is proposing forbidding your nice half-acre, just allowing the rest of us to live on top of one another if we so choose.
- ant6n 10y agoMore likely next to one another. Also, it would be nice if those half-acre folks were forced to pay the true cost of their decadence. Right now there's a tendency that denser areas get extra-punished with taxes, even though services are theoretically cheaper to provide.
- emiliobumachar 10y agoI think "living on top of one another" is a fair, if crude, description of life in multi-family apartment buildings. It's my current situation and I wouldn't trade it for a house, but it does have downsides. "Decadence", on the other hand, really seems like name-calling. Let's not do that. As for the tax situation, that seems interesting. Could you provide more detail? I'm in Brazil, here there's the rural area, that's taxed much more lightly but has less services, and everything in the urban area gets taxed the same percentage of assumed property value, regardless of density. How's it like where you live, and what would you propose to change?
- oftenwrong 10y agoThe idiom "on top of one another" means very crowded or close. Not actually on top of one another, although in this case it could be meant literally.