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Let me guess - Harry the Hipster who narrates the video, wants everyone to live in little shoeboxes and walk everywhere because a) thats all he can afford and b) he can't own a car?
Let me guess - Harry the Hipster who narrates the video, wants everyone to live in little shoeboxes and walk everywhere because a) thats all he can afford and b) he can't own a car?
Let me guess, you'd rather have everyone live in single family homes and encourage single family zoning that contributes to climate change, car dependency, obesity, depression, segregation, and further worsening the housing crisis in this country?
Let me guess, you'd rather have everyone live in single family homes and encourage single family zoning that contributes to climate change, car dependency, obesity, depression, segregation, and further worsening the housing crisis in this country?
You seem to want to force lifestyles on other people. Different strokes for different folks.
There's always been room for both- suburbia and cities. And plenty of people love their suburban homes and do not want to live in apartments.
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70% of residents in the USA are in single family homes, even in the big cities, so yes, apparently that's what we want. No Youtube video will change that.
You seem to want to force lifestyles on other people. Different strokes for different folks.
There's always been room for both- suburbia and cities. And plenty of people love their suburban homes and do not want to live in apartments.
Post-WWII suburbs were vastly different from what went before in the US. There was a lot of capital sitting stagnant in GI pay & benefits - & lots of money (banks, insurance, trades, real estate, farmers, local & state & federal government, etc., utilities, infrastructure to replicate what existed in cities) to be made by buying farmland & turning it into detached lots & homes - & political payoff for the villages & other inhabited places that sprang up, like dragon's teeth. The innovation to post-WWII was that there was enough land to allow middle-class families to own their own home - plus various changes to mortgage & loan (especially cars) requirements, to allow more credit & lessen the required down payment.
& even the previous estates in the country (usually in the county, outside of the big cities) depended heavily on interurban light rail.
Well, here's the next poster that links to a bunch of videos telling us how awful the suburbs are.
Yawwwwwnnnnn.
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