• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    There are areas which should have single family homes, but in my opinion if you have a single family home anywhere near the downtown core of a town or city you should be prepared to have your neighbourhood turn to skyscrapers and tower complexes. It’s just the way that cities need to go in order to survive. If you want a single family home you shouldn’t be living in the middle or a city, move to the outskirts and the suburbs where there is more space.

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      1 year ago

      Allowing downtown to be surrounded by an ocean of suburban sprawl means that suburbanites get preferential access to nature. In hyper urbanized countries, the kids who live in skyscrapers can bicycle to the mountain wilderness. Suburbia creates an ocean of barrier to that.

      • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        I live in a suburb with a ton of parks, if that counts.

        I do wonder why these parks are so expensive, though…