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It's a ridiculous analogy because nobody is buying residential property, or property anywhere close to residences, to build industrial processing plants.

• ip26 3y ago
  That's simply not true. It may not be happening to your friends & family, but it happens frequently. One high profile flash point is oil drilling & facilities, which in Colorado can be built as close to your house as 500 feet.
• ryandrake 3y ago
  It's an analogy, not an example. Nobody wants industrial processing plants built next door, just like nobody wants a 5 story apartment building built next door. They're both nuisances, at least in rural or sparse suburban neighborhoods.
  • snickerbockers 3y ago
    you think additional housing for other people and asbestos refinery plants are equivalent?
    • ryandrake 3y ago
      No, but I have an equal desire to have either of them right next door to me.
      • jacobr1 3y ago
        I think the objection that many people would indeed weight the asbestos factory as a more severe nuisance than the apartments. Equal weighting seems like odd affectation here.
  • ClumsyPilot 3y ago
    > industrial processing plants built next door, just like nobody wants a 5 story apartment building English-speaking peoples have such crazy issues with apartment they compare them to carcinogenic pollution.
    • pc86 3y ago
      I'm not sure someone's native language has anything to do with it.