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Once again: you’re arguing against something that I’m not saying. In fact, you’re making my point: the changes you want to make affect other people. That’s why
by irq11 7y ago
Once again: you’re arguing against something that I’m not saying. In fact, you’re making my point: the changes you want to make affect other people. That’s why they disagree with you.
The “YIMBY movement” starts with a terrible, condescending name that implicitly mocks the other side. It’s as if the GOP changed it’s name to the “anti-libtard party”.
Why should the people with the money and power listen to you when you position yourselves only as opposition to a cartoon version of what they believe?
Also: every city in the world restricts what you can do with property you own. You can’t build a radioactive waste site in your backyard, or a pork rendering plant in your garage. Get over it.
- TACIXAT 7y agoI don't want to build a pork farm, I want some higher density housing so that I pay less in rent. This isn't an extreme thing. I am also a rich person and have heard some very dumb excuses as to why my colleagues' neighborhoods should stay zoned single family. From traffic to character. In the end, people are just preserving their home values at the expense of others and it is not a sustainable system. That motivation is misguided though, their million dollar plot of land is still going to be worth a million dollars with a duplex on it.