Wowzlul t1_j1zuj41 wrote
Reply to comment by Myske1 in Opinion: New York finally has momentum on housing and it’s time for a breakthrough by King-of-New-York
This is the kind of rhetoric you hear in San Francisco, or the Bay Area generally. I honestly thought we were better than this.
koreamax t1_j20jpve wrote
I'm from San Francisco and this is spot on. Fake hyper liberals in the Bay Area are actually as socially conservative as they come
Wowzlul t1_j20kaqi wrote
It's really quite contrary to the attitude toward migration and expansion that historically dominated in the city and that's arguably its greatest source of success.
Obviously you can't fit the whole world here, but we're nowhere close to what we could do. For fucks sake most of the city is still zoned for single family homes and we never even finished the goddamn subway.
"We're full" my ass. You just like how you've got things set up for yourself and don't want to risk any disruption. God forbid the world not revolve around you.
(rhetorical "you" there obv)
Myske1 t1_j1zw1uv wrote
Lived here for all my life, and I’ve seen neighborhoods wrecked by overdevelopment. At some point, enough is enough, and we need to stand up to the crooked real estate industry.
You act like migration is a bad thing. Or new. It’s neither. People have been moving from NYC to other places in big numbers since the city was founded. Without international immigration, we’d have net population loss.
The solution for people who want a cheaper place to live is to move somewhere cheaper. It’s not that complicated.
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