Comments by "" (@steemlenn8797) on "City Beautiful" channel.

Why not? Is there a reason why people in a poor country should be less likely to go for the one place they think life will be better, compared to a country where there are other good places in reality?
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NIMBYs are everywhere. Like with wind power. "I don't want that in my sight? Why don't you build them in the city? The energy is for the city people after all, I hav eno benefit from it!" (As if people in the suburbs/villages don't use electricity. But just imagine telling those village NIMBYs who drive with their car into the town daily for work, that the city should get rid of car roads (or at least the big arteries in/out of the city). After all, the city dwellers don't use them, why should they pay for roads that mostly used by the suburbanites who don't even want wind turbines to be build!!
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@CostashMTB If a normal bike meets all your needs, you don't even think about buying an ebike, so I don't see the point of your post. Either a normal bike is all you need, or an ebike is better than every alternative.
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At least in the US every suburban house block looks different! That is, the mail post - if the HOA allows it.
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@yang8244 HOA
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WOW! The villages is such an abomination! People not even have a big green around their houses, so why live in an SFH? And it's all old people, so why is everythign so far away? There are a lot fo houses where a shopping centre is on the other side of a fence from your backyard, but it's more than 2 miles away to actually get there! And an area with 4 churches o it and nothing else except a handful of houses. Didn't churches wanted to be close to the people? Single usage designations, my ass!
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A gated commuity is foremost a failure of the local resident's brain to uphold reason over instincts.
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Divorce Ranch may be the strangest word I have ever come across.
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I think of those more in terms of constant village transit. If there is one every 5 minutes less than 5 minutes walk away, you could even use it to "drive" to work.
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Is that a reupload? I got serious "haven't I seen that before?" vibes.
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Just say you build a highway and stealthily change the ashpalt for rails.
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Are there laws in the US that prevent people from renting out cheap? For example in Germany there is this hideous financial rule that if you don't rent out (to a certain % of) market rate, you are doing it as a hobby and cannot deduct all maintenenance costs from the taxes. So if you have people that you want to give a cheap home, you also have to shoulder a part of the costs yourself instead of only not making profit.
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wow, some people are quite crazy about a bunch of bones. Also I think it's not a infraction on the religous rights of a person to relocate graves. After all, the "person" is dead and cannot feel anything (or do religion).
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What is enver mentioned when it comes to housing shortage is the fact that the space per head has increased dramatically in the last ~50 years. So even with the same number of people, if you still have the same space, a lot fo them won't have a house. I am very guilty of that too, but my area has quite a bit of empty rentals. Which leads to another problem: The huge amount of peole who have moved from where living space is to where jobs are. That was (and is) a huge problem in East Germany, since in the "socialist" days, jobs where created where people lived. And it is the same in areas in the US like Detroit (moved away) or the Silican valley (moved to).
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I am sure your confusion is because you never learned the actual definitions (or did not nother to adjust your thinking to them). In Germany for example there are official categories for under 50 people, 50-2000 (village), 2000-5000, 5000-20000 (literally small town), 20K-100K, 100K+ (and million cities but we have so few it's not a real category). But normal people just differentiate between village and city (we only have one word Stadt for town/city ) and may add small or big to it, similar to the above definitions but without respect to the official numbers, purely subjective.
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The fun thing is that all those european cities had no "proper" city planning until a century ago too, when the danger of cars created the need for "proper" planning
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@Zaydan Naufal That's the point I ask libertarians (everything works better without the state, rights are absolute!) all the time: How do you build a road if on every route there is someone who does not want to sell the land? And everything breaks down with that easy question.
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I think what is often forgotten about this "bleack uniform" buildings is that e.g. in East Germany in the 70s, it was where everyone wanted to live in, because the alternatives were worse. Your own toilet! for example instead of a shared one on the half stair (or the little houes with the heart in the yard).
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They do, if you stop looking locally. A tax break is lost revenue, giving it may simply change the city where it is happening, but that is all.
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Education is not a natural right of the parents. You could argue that it is a natural right of the children, but then it would of course show blatently that the state can do that too (and if it weren't for seggregation wanting parent's meddling) better in almost all cases. Also I would put the Freedom of not having to care about the school because all are the same good higher than the Freedom to choose the best, in the case I can afford it.
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I don't. I know how it ends once Gandhi arrives in atomic age!
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We call the tools to do that "bags" and for advanced bike users there is a thing called a "basket" you can put on the back of your bike to carry two of those bags so you don't have to hang them on the handles. Worst case (big family) you can get a strange contraption called a "cargo bike" for 1/4 the price of a small car to haul all the grocery you need (or your new dishwasher) from the shop to your home. Bonus point: It doubles as a mama taxi for small children.
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@acedude112 I am too, because what would I do with all that frozen stuff? I mean if you buy fresh stuff, you need a family of 10 that you can't do with 3 bags for 2-3 days. (And in that case I gladly "allow" you a car to haul that if you don't like cargo bikes. It's still a bit stupid, but a lot less than taking a car to buy a pack of cigarettes.)
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Owning a home without owning it - I know that! Funnily enough so many people who live in this socialism don't like it named as socialism.
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That is because Tokyo is not a city. It's more like a county in US terms. Akihabara, Shibuja etc. are all cities/wards on their own making up the Tokyo Metropolitan area. They have their own town halls and their own centers and their own "suburbs". In fact the famous landmark building "Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building" which is referred to as the "town hall" of Tokyo, stands in the city of Shinjuku.
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That heavily depends on the town. Generally there is "young leaving the town to find work" and "young families coming (back) there" (for the small town feeling you could say). Depending on how big the second movement is, the average age can vary drastly.
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@Moon Shine I am not crying, how the hell could you get to think this? Fact is that it is basically illegal in the US to build anything except suburban sprawl or towers. And from what I can read a lot of those living in suburbs don't enjoy it. They hate bad streets, having to driver themselves and their kids all the time and all the other stuff. But yeah, be as snobby as you want. It's not my problem. I live in an appartment in a 3 storey house 600m from the office I am working in and I definitely pay a lot less than if I would life in a single family home, so I can afford to stop working when I am 50 even without being in a high income job. If that suburban stupidity wasn't also destroying my life with it's waste, I could happily ignore what happens on the other side of the ocean.
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