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> your children are going to move to another state That will happen with your plan as well because they won't want to live in a dense dystopian population hell
by starik36 3y ago
> your children are going to move to another state
That will happen with your plan as well because they won't want to live in a dense dystopian population hellscape.
Maybe the solution is not to be ripping out homes and replacing them with duplexes, but rather building new cities.
Which is also already happening. Witness rise of cities (in SoCal) around Corona and San Bernardino, where very few lived only 20 years ago. That's because lots of people would rather live in a peace and quiet rather than hear their upstairs neighbor arguing with his wife.
- astrange 3y agoDuplexes don't have upstairs neighbors, you're thinking of apartments. Regardless it'll be fine; arguing with your wife is a generational-specific hobby of baby boomers, like how being in a band is specific to Gen Xers. (That's why husbands who hate their wives is the main joke in all those newspaper comics.) Luckily, having cheaper housing makes it much safer to get divorced or leave an abusive relationship!
- starik36 3y ago[flagged]
- vonwoodson 3y agoYou've never lived in a place where 100 year-old houses have been converted to duplexes/quadplexes/hexaplexes/OCTOPLEXES. You will definitely end up below someone who can afford to be on top.
- astrange 3y agoI live in California and the laws I'm talking about (AB68+SB9) do not permit that. Or 8-plexes for that matter. Of course, since we're talking about getting rid of zoning here, that should be legal and we should respect people's property rights to build or live in a multi story building if they want to. It'll be fine. Btw, I usually choose to be on the ground floor because it lets you go outside more easily, and one time it came with a dishwasher but the 2nd floor didn't.
- vonwoodson 3y agoEdit: posted on wrong comment. I do say, though, that "property rights" do not guarantee absolute sovereignty. Democracy specifically exists to rob the wealthy land owners the privilege of exerting their will upon their neighbors and fellow citizens. The will of the people is regulation.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoDense cities are by far the most popular in this country and indeed the entire world.