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DumbshitOnTheRight t1_j8n050q wrote

Again with the "harm the town's character".

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AboyNamedBort t1_j8n36h7 wrote

To spin off of that, Middleborough's town character would be a cop who faked an injury to get disability and spends his day beating his wife.

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AeuiGame t1_j8nc2op wrote

"Town character" is a non argument. "We cannot build something here because something like that has not been built here."

Your original town character was goddamn trees you go far back enough. Its just a nonstarter that can be dismissed out of hand.

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3720-To-One t1_j8nk57t wrote

But don’t you see?

In the mind of a NIMBY, once they purchase property, only then does the town magically become frozen in time, and should never have to ever change.

Imagine if the “neighborhood character” of forests and corn fields had been preserved. Most NIMBY suburbs wouldn’t exist.

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Bald_Sasquach t1_j8pc6g9 wrote

Last summer I was driving thought Charlestown and watched a guy consoling his girlfriend who was screaming and crying watching a triple decker being demolished. She screamed "THIS IS SO FUCKED UP I GREW UP HERE!!! THAT BUILDING WAS ALWAYS THERE! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

There is a new triple decker there now that looks almost exactly the same lmao

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Cameron_james t1_j8o8xst wrote

> Your original town character

The original town character was probably a wetu before it had a two level house.

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j8nak8j wrote

their town character is the worst character since poochie. they make andy bernard look like dwight schrute. fuck their town character

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TurnsOutImAScientist t1_j8p4g4t wrote

"town character" needs to be ridiculed until it's widely enough recognized to be a racist/classist dog whistle that it's scorned and retired. Wish SNL would do a skit or something...

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DumbshitOnTheRight t1_j8p59ib wrote

My town is forever adding new houses, which I'm against - solely because the water system cannot reliably support what we have now for watershed needs.

Solve the water problems first for fuck's sake.

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