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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Multifsm housing works in Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and Singapore because there is massive social pressure to tattle/conform and otherwise behave In Anglo countries, individualism is considered supreme so there is no social or state coercion to behave and hence muktifsm housing is annoying to live in YIMBYs never want to talk about the social/state pressure required to make everyone behave better There is a reason why living in a multifam in Tokyo or Zurich or Munich is ok but then you try in dc and it sucks [/quote] This is such BS. It is the same as saying that biking as a mode of transportation works in Europe and Asia but not the US because, reasons. It is all about leadership. Do we want to continue the failed sprawl of the 20th Century or shift to something else that virtually the entire rest of the world does? Because what we are doing here is unsustainable from a landuse standpoint. [/quote] There is some truth to what this person is saying. Americans frankly are not as considerate towards their neighbors as other places. In Japan and South Korea, at least there is some social pressure for people to behave well. In the US, not so much. [/quote] So reward poor socialization and behavior with wasteful single family homes that are more expensive and farther way than multi-family closer in?[/quote] Yes, as a nation we've made the terrible decision of distancing ourselves from anti-social people rather than addressing the anti-social people. After the last four years, they may be on to something. [/quote]
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