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Because the US doesn't build apartment buildings en masse. It's a solved problem, but US people dislike the solution.
by Izikiel43 3y ago
Because the US doesn't build apartment buildings en masse.
It's a solved problem, but US people dislike the solution.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoIt's true. I'm continually amazed by the tall apartment buildings we call "concrete suburbs" here in Finland. What other people as plain, boring, unadorned, I see as one of the most powerful levers of equality out there.
- mnky9800n 3y agoMost apartments in the United States also sucks completely compared to anywhere else because they are not walkable to anything. They also are very dehumanising. Every usa apartment I lived in had mold issues, crackheads, managers who did nothing, managers who threatened to throw me out when I asked them to do things like take care of the mold. And one apartment had this huge owl that would fly around the complex catching rats. That was pretty cool actually. All the flats I've lived in outside of the USA (Tokyo, Berlin, Oslo, Brest, Utrecht) were super walkable, had landlords that treated me like a person, and was not made out of cardboard. I guess my point is either get a flat outside of the USA or get one with a bad ass owl.
- Izikiel43 3y agoThat owl sounds like a cool feature, I only have coyotes come to visit. There are nice apartments in the USA, I'm in Seattle, everyone of my friends live in apartments and they are nice. I live in an old building from the 60s, but the apartment is great. The problem is that there aren't enough apartments.
- taylodl 3y agoWe don't?! In my city they've been building multi-block apartment buildings en masse for several years now yet the rents are still rising. Seems like every other week another multi-hundred unit is being built.