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Not just east coasters can subscribe to this thinking. A citizen of pretty much any other country can. Compare with Hong Kong. Right off the Victoria Peak ther
by H8crilA 7y ago
Not just east coasters can subscribe to this thinking. A citizen of pretty much any other country can.
Compare with Hong Kong. Right off the Victoria Peak there are 40+ story apartment buildings. There's forest to one side of them, and more 40+ story buildings to the other side.
- scrumbledober 7y agoYou don't need to live outside of the bay area to think this way. I've grown up on the peninsula and think it's absurd. I'm a software engineer and if I ever want to buy a house I feel like I'll be forced to relocate away from family and hometown. My friend's 90 year old grandmother constantly complains about new housing development in the town we live in, but then also questions why my friend has to live with her and his cousin had to move away. Stop voting to make this area too expensive to live in and your younger family won't have to move away.
- MiroF 7y agoEvery single homeowner I've talked to here has complained about the housing crisis, yet has been opposing development near their house. Incredible that people can be so willfully blind that they don't see how their own actions are contributing to the crisis. It's a real tragedy of the commons