People: We want to live in this neighborhood because it has cool little bookstores and shops an and restaurants and a genuine culture.
Developers: I got you. *proceeds to bulldoze cool little bookstores and shops and restaurants to put up cheaply made million dollar condos until the area is nothing but soulless housing*
Developers (dusting off hands): My work here is done.
I live under the bizarre notion that if you work a full time job in a city you should be able to live in that city and also that if you don’t let people do that, the city becomes a theme park.
I honestly don’t know of anywhere left in the West that is getting this right on any large scale. Maybe Paris? Mamdani’s trying in NYC.
@rk surely you don't mean austin...?
god don't even get me started on how much i hate that fucking city now.
I genuinely don’t know of any Western city doing this right.
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually
Greg Bell
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