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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (31 children)

Rent apartments. Own houses.

*Since some people really need every combination addressed: Rent/own apartments. Own houses.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Houses are pretty terrible for a multitude of factors:

urban sprawl
congestion
pollution
high cost public works
low income for public bodies doing those works
environmental erosion
flood protection

We should be building apartments that everyone can own, live and be happy in. It shouldn’t be reserved for home owners.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Houses are pretty great for a few factors

Not sharing a wall with a neighbor
being able to be louder in general
Not being woken up by neighbors
Not getting your home infested with bugs because of having a nasty neighbor
No loud honking at night
Not having your door accidentally knocked on to ask if your apartment neighbor is home when they’re not answering their door
Parking in your own garage
Having a yard for your dog/kids to play in

Apartments fucking suck in so many ways. I get that they’re pretty handy in City Skylines where everyone bases their urban planning experience from but there is a reason people prefer to live in house and it’s because it gives you separation from other people in a way apartments cannot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It’s nearly as if there’s no single solution. Houses suck and apartments suck for completely different reasons.

(But tbh, nearly all of the reasons you mentioned apartments suck have been maybe an issue once 10+ years of living in apartments)

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