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I'm pro density but the densification process really trips core parts of people's psyche. We're human beings. It affects your _home_. You've lived in a place f
by xyzzy123 6y ago
I'm pro density but the densification process really trips core parts of people's psyche. We're human beings.
It affects your _home_. You've lived in a place for 10 years and suddenly you have no privacy because a big block of units gets stood up looking right over you. Or they block your sunlight, build right up to the boundary, or your quiet leafy neighbourhood just isn't quiet anymore and that's after you lived next to a construction site for 6 months. These things can have impacts on people's relationships as well.
Of course the world changes, such is the price of progress, and _usually_ those affected can afford to wipe their tears with big stacks of cash.
But I don't think it's fair to characterise all NIMBYs as just greedy, a lot of people just want to live in the neighbourhood they thought they were buying into.
- yks 6y agoI agree, it's not a pure calculated greed but some sort of a "mental denial of change" coupled with the historically unusual legal powers. Immediate property appreciation is more like blinders, it is very hard to swim against "number go up". End result for society is still the same though.
- overlords 6y agoWeighing the Justice : 'I like they way my lawn is and i don't like construction noises' vs 'I can't get a job because it's too expensive to rent or buy where the jobs are, so i live in poverty' (or i can't start family because i can only afford a room-share, or any number of other effects from NIMBYism)
- pgsimp 6y agoSo if people make babies, they are entitled to take your stuff away? I think that is too simplistic.