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Comment by tamimio

2 years ago

With Canada’s land to population ratio, each resident should have at least a private airfield and 100acre farm, and yet, people spend their whole lives paying mortgages for 1000 square feet sardines boxes called houses, and before they realize it, they gauge up the already abysmal prices so they can compensate their loss to milk the tenants, a never ending process to keep people busy when the land is empty and vacant all around us..

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local_crmdgeon  2 years ago

More suburban sprawl is not the answer. We're already seeing what happens when you build into fire areas, doing more of that is insanity. We should just fix our cities to meet the bare minimum of peer countries like Canada.

Mexico is significantly better at cities than CA. Fucking Guatemala has better urbanism.

  • tamimio  2 years ago

    > doing more of that is insanity.

    It is insanity because it’s being sprawled by the same developers and same regulations. Sure, fixing existing cities is better option but it’s unrealistic to do so, because you will need an authoritarian set of decisions that will never happen in a democratic government when 2/3 of your voters are home owners and already paid their life savings in that house and want the returns now, yeah, that fix will never happen, the realistic option is to use the already vacant land -that surprise surprise it’s actually owned by the crown!- with new sets of regulations to ease the crisis, or absolutely nothing will substantially change.