• @andrewta
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      -21 year ago

      I agree an apartment building is nothing but a glorified can.

      And its sucks

      The guy above you, below you or next to you has a sub woofer going? Yeah you have to listen to it.

      Have a home? Not anywhere near the issue.

      • @AA5B
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        11 year ago

        Yeah but we’re ok with making sardine cans out of wood now, because who needs sound proofing. It’ll make housing cheaper

    • @[email protected]
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      -61 year ago

      Yes, I refuse to ever live in a can, not being able to simply open my door and go for a walk. Trying to force that on people is cruel.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Nobody is forcing anything stop with the fake hysteria. it’s ok to make it legal to build apartments in more places if people want to.

        • @[email protected]
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          -21 year ago

          Is that not what started this whole conversation? Someone claiming single family homes are bad and shouldn’t be built?

          • @dogslayeggs
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            21 year ago

            No, it wasn’t. They were saying the TAXING STRUCTURE for single family homes NEAR CITIES or close suburbs is bad. Single family homes out in the country or in smaller towns are fine. The density isn’t needed there. Single family homes in suburbs could be fine, if the taxes paid for denser housing that is needed to support a larger city. People in New York are able to live in the city because of dense housing availability or easy access to commuter trains to get farther out where less dense housing exists. People in Los Angeles/Houston/Atlanta don’t have great public transport options AND don’t have much high density housing, so the sprawl is horrendous (along with the associated car traffic). If the taxes for single family homes in Los Angeles were higher than for condos/townhouses, then the city could fund either higher density housing (which are actually banned by local zoning laws in some neighborhoods, since nobody wants an apartment building next to their single family home) or better public transport for people living farther out of the city.