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Anonymous wrote:Nimbys are the worst. Seriously. You’re ruining this country.

How is this ruining the country? Because people need to live in areas that comport with their affordability instead of the government trying to get everyone a prize at the expense of current homeowners? No one has a right to live in Arlington. It’s a very nice and expensive place.

I would love a house in Newport Beach. I can’t afford a $8M house so I don’t live there.

because EVERYTHING that is a common good gets opposed by NIMBYs. Preschools, high schools, sidewalks, solar powed, waste treatment plants …

None of this is true for Arlington. There were arguments about the high school, but not because people didn’t want it in their backyard but because they wanted a school that was equivalent to the existing high schools like W-L, Yorktown and Wakefield and the County, per usual, wouldn’t do that. They forced all these other 1/2 a$$ options on people. I’d love to hear about the preschool and solar power that Arlington NIMBYs scrapped. I’ve lived here over twenty years.

lol pathetic defense of blocking the HS. I bet you $10000 the same people who blocked the HS are now whining about not having enough school capacity for growth.

Pathetic defense? You must be a delusional YIMBY renter without kids. Because you would care if your kid was zoned for a high school with a small turf field on the roof and no swimming pool or theater while kids at the other high schools have all of those things. I have no dog in this fight. I am a parent of high school student but I wouldn’t send them to APS. The County and their schools suck.

Catch up. The NIMBYs blocked the a new APS HS (and now whine that the schools are too crowded for more housing.)

It’s almost like you are purposely obtuse. I just explained why it was blocked. It’s YIMBY’s like you who can’t make a coherent argument that got us into this mess.

They are MAGAs whether they realelize it or not.

So true when you consider that the @YIMBY development lobby hires MAGA operatives who also work for Trump.

Please, tell us ALL about your progressive bona fides.

“Smart Growth” operatives who oppose affordable housing when working for Trump but at the same time push dense development that they claim, naturally, will bring “affordable” housing. Whatever cynical nonsense sells the client’s dog food.

This is all in your imagination.

Just ask Tony and Bob.

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Anonymous wrote:Nimbys are the worst. Seriously. You’re ruining this country.

How is this ruining the country? Because people need to live in areas that comport with their affordability instead of the government trying to get everyone a prize at the expense of current homeowners? No one has a right to live in Arlington. It’s a very nice and expensive place.

I would love a house in Newport Beach. I can’t afford a $8M house so I don’t live there.

because EVERYTHING that is a common good gets opposed by NIMBYs. Preschools, high schools, sidewalks, solar powed, waste treatment plants …

The best thing for the common hood would be for people to understand that if you want something nice in this country you have to sacrifice and work your tail off. In an era of student loan forgiveness, free housing for illegal immigrants, and countless other government giveaways it’s gotten totally out of control.

How does someone sacrifice and “work their tail off” for sidewalks and wind farms? That’s total disingenuous NIMBY bullsh*t. You don’t believe people need to work for themselves - if you did, you’d never try to legally block what they do with *their own property.* What you want is to control what happens to property and public spaces that you *never worked for*. So stfu about “hard work.”

There is a specific, yet to be named type of psychological rage that exists amongst nonprofit workers and humanities degree holders when they reach adulthood and realize they cannot have the same types of things that their peers who went into business, law, STEM, etc. It is sad to
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That’s a weird projection, considering that you’re mad you couldn’t buy up all your neighbors property.

It’s being bought up by developers who majored in business.

Great!! I live in a 120 year old house that was built by “developers.” You probably also live in a house built by a “developer.” It’s an odd belief that it’s somehow wrong for businesses to build houses …. do you have some kind of idealized fantasy that everyone should be a homesteader and buy their own land and build their own house on it?

120 years ago your house was built by a farmer or businessman who earned it. The original owner would laugh at you.

No it wasn’t. What a weird anachronistic view. It was built by a developer that built blocks of rowhouses.

So buying a house from a developer is wrong now because you didn’t “earn it”? 🤡

There are 120 year old row houses in Arlington?

I’m in DC now. BTW I just walked around Arlington a bit, and the detached SFH neighborhoods are as tatty and ugly as I remembered. The denser townhouse blocks are much nicer. All this drama over neighborhoods full of fugly houses with bad landscaping. Zero charm.

So then they should be more affordable to families than the upscale townhouses tricked out with quartzite falling edge kitchens.

Sometimes affordable is actually more aesthetically pleasing.

Brownstones are a classic. The 5K sq ft+ McMansion on a quarter acre is just awful.

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Anonymous wrote:One has to wonder if some of the Arlington elected officials have an Eric Adams problem when it comes to developers.

The board members I have met are too stupid to figure out how to get in on the graft. One of them cost his condo association thousands of dollars because he kept approving bad contracts -- not for graft but out of arrogance and ignorance.

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Anonymous wrote:Nimbys are the worst. Seriously. You’re ruining this country.

How is this ruining the country? Because people need to live in areas that comport with their affordability instead of the government trying to get everyone a prize at the expense of current homeowners? No one has a right to live in Arlington. It’s a very nice and expensive place.

I would love a house in Newport Beach. I can’t afford a $8M house so I don’t live there.

because EVERYTHING that is a common good gets opposed by NIMBYs. Preschools, high schools, sidewalks, solar powed, waste treatment plants …

The best thing for the common hood would be for people to understand that if you want something nice in this country you have to sacrifice and work your tail off. In an era of student loan forgiveness, free housing for illegal immigrants, and countless other government giveaways it’s gotten totally out of control.

How does someone sacrifice and “work their tail off” for sidewalks and wind farms? That’s total disingenuous NIMBY bullsh*t. You don’t believe people need to work for themselves - if you did, you’d never try to legally block what they do with *their own property.* What you want is to control what happens to property and public spaces that you *never worked for*. So stfu about “hard work.”

There is a specific, yet to be named type of psychological rage that exists amongst nonprofit workers and humanities degree holders when they reach adulthood and realize they cannot have the same types of things that their peers who went into business, law, STEM, etc. It is sad to
to watch.

That’s a weird projection, considering that you’re mad you couldn’t buy up all your neighbors property.

It’s being bought up by developers who majored in business.

Great!! I live in a 120 year old house that was built by “developers.” You probably also live in a house built by a “developer.” It’s an odd belief that it’s somehow wrong for businesses to build houses …. do you have some kind of idealized fantasy that everyone should be a homesteader and buy their own land and build their own house on it?

120 years ago your house was built by a farmer or businessman who earned it. The original owner would laugh at you.

No it wasn’t. What a weird anachronistic view. It was built by a developer that built blocks of rowhouses.

So buying a house from a developer is wrong now because you didn’t “earn it”? 🤡

There are 120 year old row houses in Arlington?

I’m in DC now. BTW I just walked around Arlington a bit, and the detached SFH neighborhoods are as tatty and ugly as I remembered. The denser townhouse blocks are much nicer. All this drama over neighborhoods full of fugly houses with bad landscaping. Zero charm.

So then they should be more affordable to families than the upscale townhouses tricked out with quartzite falling edge kitchens.

Sometimes affordable is actually more aesthetically pleasing.

Brownstones are a classic. The 5K sq ft+ McMansion on a quarter acre is just awful.

Yeah. Every time I go to Nova I’m surprised at just how ugly it is.

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Anonymous wrote:Or maybe just maybe the YIMBYs could propose infrasture improvements along with their development proposals instead of pretending that infrastructure doesn't matter.

Yeah and guess who also constantly disrupts infrastructure development … NIMBYS. Country is literally falling apart.

How do NIMBYs disrupt infrastructure? I truly want to know. With real examples.

As an Arlington homeowner, I'd say it is the NIMBYs who make all the infrastructure happen. There is a program that provides funding for neighborhood improvements such as sidewalks, streetlights, etc. The NIMBYs seem to be the people who analyze the data, figure out what is needed, and get the county to provide the funding.

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Anonymous wrote:They basically want to turn the whole DMV into Mexico City. No, I do not mean that in a disparaging ethic way, but they’ll try to jam pack way too many people in a certain area just like Mexico City. And guess what’s happening to MC? The entire city is sinking because infrastructure can’t handle water and sewage demand. The city is going to collapse because there will be no more water.

Maybe, just maybe, not everyone has the god given right to live wherever they want, when they want. You build infrastructure up to a certain level with a limit. You can only sustain a population up to that limit. If you can’t afford to live there due to limit on capacity, then you simply find more affordable, less dense areas to live. The U.S. is massive. I don’t understand why we insist on making certain areas extremely dense when there is huge amounts of room and space elsewhere available that’s already far more affordable. You can live in PA, WV, or OH for much more affordable housing.

You can live in PA or OH if you want a massive SFH with a giant yard. You don’t get to both live close to an urban center and demand other people cannot live there.

There is a capacity limit due to infrastructure, dimwit. You can’t keep packing people into the same area if sewage systems, water infrastructure, schools, etc. can’t handle it. Look at Mexico City for the nightmare that can happen. Spread density out where more infrastructure can be built for a fraction of the cost. You don’t have a god given inherent right to live where you think you should. I deserve $1000/mo rent in Jackson Hole too! Build me my home, now! lol.

wtf does Mexico City have to do with it?? (except to be the classic nonsequitur that NIMBYs love to layer on.)

don’t worry, zoning reform will prevail and we’ll all have a good laugh when only the truly mentally deranged among you are left to chain yourself to the sh*tshack teardown.

Because if you knew anything about Mexico City you'd know they entire area is sinking and it is on the path to becoming uninhabitable. The city is sinking because of too much water demand. The city's sewer systems also get constantly backed up and overflow. That's what happens when you jam pack too many people into an area and infrastructure can't handle it. You give them more water, but you didn't soe enough time to study whether massive water demand increases can cause huge issues with subsidence they can ruin vast swaths of terrain and anything built in top of it.

Are you comparing a city of 9+ million built on a lake with Arlington county?

yes. yes he is 🤡

one thing I’ve learned over several years of being involved in various public improvement/land use projects is that NIMBYs make the most outlandish arguments stacked on top of each other - if not outright lies. This is because generally their only true underlying belief and goal is that nothing should ever change (unless they specifically want it to). so they don’t generally have many bona fide arguments but just a series of increasingly outlandish, disingenuous, and sometimes paranoid claims.

But then the YIYBYs argue that D.C. and Arlington should be as dense as Tokyo.

I’ve never heard anyone say that. The citation to Tokyo is about their much faster/cheaper modular construction, which means rents are much lower.

Go to the NOVA YIMBY website.

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Anonymous wrote:Nimbys are the worst. Seriously. You’re ruining this country.

How is this ruining the country? Because people need to live in areas that comport with their affordability instead of the government trying to get everyone a prize at the expense of current homeowners? No one has a right to live in Arlington. It’s a very nice and expensive place.

I would love a house in Newport Beach. I can’t afford a $8M house so I don’t live there.

because EVERYTHING that is a common good gets opposed by NIMBYs. Preschools, high schools, sidewalks, solar powed, waste treatment plants …

I agree to some extent. All for solar, better infrastructure, etc but eliminating SFH zoning is not needed. There is plenty of room to build up - apts, condos, etc. people here just look down on those types of homes. Everywhere Else in the world, a condo is a fine place to live. Wealthier people live in the larger suburban homes, most live in condos/apts. le

But the choices should not be limited to 1000 sqft condo or 4000 sqft SFH. It would be nice to have more housing in the middle.

Buy one of the many 2,000 sqft condos, townhouses, duplexes that are for sale in Arlington.

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Anonymous wrote:Or maybe just maybe the YIMBYs could propose infrasture improvements along with their development proposals instead of pretending that infrastructure doesn't matter.

Yeah and guess who also constantly disrupts infrastructure development … NIMBYS. Country is literally falling apart.

How do NIMBYs disrupt infrastructure? I truly want to know. With real examples.

As an Arlington homeowner, I'd say it is the NIMBYs who make all the infrastructure happen. There is a program that provides funding for neighborhood improvements such as sidewalks, streetlights, etc. The NIMBYs seem to be the people who analyze the data, figure out what is needed, and get the county to provide the funding.

Arlington NIMBYs classically oppose sidewalks. Lol. https://ggwash.org/view/5991/arlingtons-missing-sidewalks

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Anonymous wrote:Nimbys are the worst. Seriously. You’re ruining this country.

How is this ruining the country? Because people need to live in areas that comport with their affordability instead of the government trying to get everyone a prize at the expense of current homeowners? No one has a right to live in Arlington. It’s a very nice and expensive place.

I would love a house in Newport Beach. I can’t afford a $8M house so I don’t live there.

because EVERYTHING that is a common good gets opposed by NIMBYs. Preschools, high schools, sidewalks, solar powed, waste treatment plants …

I agree to some extent. All for solar, better infrastructure, etc but eliminating SFH zoning is not needed. There is plenty of room to build up - apts, condos, etc. people here just look down on those types of homes. Everywhere Else in the world, a condo is a fine place to live. Wealthier people live in the larger suburban homes, most live in condos/apts. le

But the choices should not be limited to 1000 sqft condo or 4000 sqft SFH. It would be nice to have more housing in the middle.

So maybe you need to do what the rest of us did and buy a small 1.5 bath colonial fixer-upper or a small 2 bed ranch with an original kitchen and bath? Only the new construction is 4000 sqft for a SFH. And consider existing duplexes and townhomes in South Arlington, also like we did. Put in some sweat equity and make a profit.

But if MM stands, all those existing homes will be torn down to make way for new construction that is unaffordable to anyone in the middle, regardless of sqft. Whether it’s a 4000 sqft SFH or a six-plex, it’s not going to make a real dent in affordability or the regional housing crisis with a cap of 50 per year. It’s just enough to piss off current residents when parking and tree canopy and storm water and school crowding aren’t addressed simultaneously. We need many, many more high rises in the R-B corridor and “National Landing” and there’s lots of office space that is sitting empty that could make an actual dent in housing and affordability and transit access without upsetting the entire SFH resident owner population. Unless, of course, you’re not actually interested in solving these issues.

Thanks for the suggestions but I already have a house in Arlington. But I also am aware that housing in the middle is limited. Any lot suitable for a new build is already bought by a developer, and I’d rather see a duplex be constructed than a hideous McMansion.

have you not seen the hideous duplex on Washington Blvd east of Glebe Rd.

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Anonymous wrote:Nimbys are the worst. Seriously. You’re ruining this country.

How is this ruining the country? Because people need to live in areas that comport with their affordability instead of the government trying to get everyone a prize at the expense of current homeowners? No one has a right to live in Arlington. It’s a very nice and expensive place.

I would love a house in Newport Beach. I can’t afford a $8M house so I don’t live there.

because EVERYTHING that is a common good gets opposed by NIMBYs. Preschools, high schools, sidewalks, solar powed, waste treatment plants …

The best thing for the common hood would be for people to understand that if you want something nice in this country you have to sacrifice and work your tail off. In an era of student loan forgiveness, free housing for illegal immigrants, and countless other government giveaways it’s gotten totally out of control.

This is why there is a huge disconnect with some liberals in Arlington, extremely socially liberal, but also believe what you said above that you should work hard to get to where you are and should enjoy the benefits of that hard work. They’re happy to donate their hard earned money to those less fortunate, but don’t want them living next-door.

It’s not surprising that a generation of young people who grew up getting participation trophies would have no shame in thinking they deserve to live in close-in high income neighborhoods. The lack of self awareness is galling.

You should hear YIMBYs in the wild. I have heard many of them say that the houses in places like Dominion Hills are "functionally obsolescent" because they do not have a master bathroom and a walk in closet. Plenty of people have lived there since the 1940s and raised six kids in a house with one bathroom.

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Anonymous wrote:Nimbys are the worst. Seriously. You’re ruining this country.

How is this ruining the country? Because people need to live in areas that comport with their affordability instead of the government trying to get everyone a prize at the expense of current homeowners? No one has a right to live in Arlington. It’s a very nice and expensive place.

I would love a house in Newport Beach. I can’t afford a $8M house so I don’t live there.

because EVERYTHING that is a common good gets opposed by NIMBYs. Preschools, high schools, sidewalks, solar powed, waste treatment plants …

The best thing for the common hood would be for people to understand that if you want something nice in this country you have to sacrifice and work your tail off. In an era of student loan forgiveness, free housing for illegal immigrants, and countless other government giveaways it’s gotten totally out of control.

This is why there is a huge disconnect with some liberals in Arlington, extremely socially liberal, but also believe what you said above that you should work hard to get to where you are and should enjoy the benefits of that hard work. They’re happy to donate their hard earned money to those less fortunate, but don’t want them living next-door.

It’s not surprising that a generation of young people who grew up getting participation trophies would have no shame in thinking they deserve to live in close-in high income neighborhoods. The lack of self awareness is galling.

Devils advocate, why does someone who can’t afford it think they should “deserve” to live in a particular neighborhood?

They were raised as upper middle class kids by boomer parents who worked hard to accomplish a good life for them. Many were in the first generation to earn college degrees and ground through college on the GI bill or through night school, including law school. They wanted their kids to have what they missed and encouraged them to follow their passions. The kids did so but the passion does not pay enough to have the kind of life they had as a kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Nimbys are the worst. Seriously. You’re ruining this country.

How is this ruining the country? Because people need to live in areas that comport with their affordability instead of the government trying to get everyone a prize at the expense of current homeowners? No one has a right to live in Arlington. It’s a very nice and expensive place.

I would love a house in Newport Beach. I can’t afford a $8M house so I don’t live there.

because EVERYTHING that is a common good gets opposed by NIMBYs. Preschools, high schools, sidewalks, solar powed, waste treatment plants …

I agree to some extent. All for solar, better infrastructure, etc but eliminating SFH zoning is not needed. There is plenty of room to build up - apts, condos, etc. people here just look down on those types of homes. Everywhere Else in the world, a condo is a fine place to live. Wealthier people live in the larger suburban homes, most live in condos/apts. le

But the choices should not be limited to 1000 sqft condo or 4000 sqft SFH. It would be nice to have more housing in the middle.

So maybe you need to do what the rest of us did and buy a small 1.5 bath colonial fixer-upper or a small 2 bed ranch with an original kitchen and bath? Only the new construction is 4000 sqft for a SFH. And consider existing duplexes and townhomes in South Arlington, also like we did. Put in some sweat equity and make a profit.

But if MM stands, all those existing homes will be torn down to make way for new construction that is unaffordable to anyone in the middle, regardless of sqft. Whether it’s a 4000 sqft SFH or a six-plex, it’s not going to make a real dent in affordability or the regional housing crisis with a cap of 50 per year. It’s just enough to piss off current residents when parking and tree canopy and storm water and school crowding aren’t addressed simultaneously. We need many, many more high rises in the R-B corridor and “National Landing” and there’s lots of office space that is sitting empty that could make an actual dent in housing and affordability and transit access without upsetting the entire SFH resident owner population. Unless, of course, you’re not actually interested in solving these issues.

Thanks for the suggestions but I already have a house in Arlington. But I also am aware that housing in the middle is limited. Any lot suitable for a new build is already bought by a developer, and I’d rather see a duplex be constructed than a hideous McMansion.

I think if they’d just done duplexes there wouldn’t have even been a lawsuit. But the six-plexes approved for 5000 sqft lots was pure stupidity. That means no dedicated space for parking and who wants a dumpster next door when you didn’t buy in an area that ever had dumpsters before or where you suddenly have to fight for street parking? Of course it ended this way. Better to refocus energy on changing rules for lot coverage and make storm water regulations/non-permeable coverage limits so stringent and expensive that it’s not worth it for developers to prevent this McMansion spread and tree destruction.

As a current Arlington homeowner, I don’t want to dumpy duplex next to me either! If I was fine with that, I would have lived in a more populated area of Arlington, not in my nice quiet neighborhood where I am now.

They’d be new construction, and not dumpy at all. You might not like it, but it’s not really going to change your neighborhood or impact your life. Have you seen the few that have been built? You can hardly tell they are duplexes, and each one has a garage and driveway (on a corner lot the main door, garage, and driveway aren’t even on the same street). A six-plex, however, would really alter the nature of things on a SFH street, especially on the small lots that have no space to add any off-street parking. I think the lawsuit was more about this than a duplex. But, whatever, there won’t be either, so the YIMBYs need to refocus on repurposing the empty office space in Metro corridors to housing. If housing is what this is all about.

No properties have been built under the Expanded Housing Opportunities in Arlington. Although the EHO plans have been approved for 45 properties, only two building permits have been issued. One is for a side by side plex in Rosslyn and one is for a six plex in Douglas Estates. The side by side plex to which you are referring were either built on properties already zoned for townhouses or for properties already zoned for duplexes.

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Anonymous wrote:Nimbys are the worst. Seriously. You’re ruining this country.

How is this ruining the country? Because people need to live in areas that comport with their affordability instead of the government trying to get everyone a prize at the expense of current homeowners? No one has a right to live in Arlington. It’s a very nice and expensive place.

I would love a house in Newport Beach. I can’t afford a $8M house so I don’t live there.

because EVERYTHING that is a common good gets opposed by NIMBYs. Preschools, high schools, sidewalks, solar powed, waste treatment plants …

The best thing for the common hood would be for people to understand that if you want something nice in this country you have to sacrifice and work your tail off. In an era of student loan forgiveness, free housing for illegal immigrants, and countless other government giveaways it’s gotten totally out of control.

How does someone sacrifice and “work their tail off” for sidewalks and wind farms? That’s total disingenuous NIMBY bullsh*t. You don’t believe people need to work for themselves - if you did, you’d never try to legally block what they do with *their own property.* What you want is to control what happens to property and public spaces that you *never worked for*. So stfu about “hard work.”

There is a specific, yet to be named type of psychological rage that exists amongst nonprofit workers and humanities degree holders when they reach adulthood and realize they cannot have the same types of things that their peers who went into business, law, STEM, etc. It is sad to
to watch.

That’s a weird projection, considering that you’re mad you couldn’t buy up all your neighbors property.

It’s being bought up by developers who majored in business.

Great!! I live in a 120 year old house that was built by “developers.” You probably also live in a house built by a “developer.” It’s an odd belief that it’s somehow wrong for businesses to build houses …. do you have some kind of idealized fantasy that everyone should be a homesteader and buy their own land and build their own house on it?

120 years ago your house was built by a farmer or businessman who earned it. The original owner would laugh at you.

No it wasn’t. What a weird anachronistic view. It was built by a developer that built blocks of rowhouses.

So buying a house from a developer is wrong now because you didn’t “earn it”? 🤡

There are 120 year old row houses in Arlington?

They were all torn down by FDR when he kicked the African Americans out of Queen City to build the road system for The Pentagon.

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Anonymous wrote:Nimbys are the worst. Seriously. You’re ruining this country.

How is this ruining the country? Because people need to live in areas that comport with their affordability instead of the government trying to get everyone a prize at the expense of current homeowners? No one has a right to live in Arlington. It’s a very nice and expensive place.

I would love a house in Newport Beach. I can’t afford a $8M house so I don’t live there.

because EVERYTHING that is a common good gets opposed by NIMBYs. Preschools, high schools, sidewalks, solar powed, waste treatment plants …

The best thing for the common hood would be for people to understand that if you want something nice in this country you have to sacrifice and work your tail off. In an era of student loan forgiveness, free housing for illegal immigrants, and countless other government giveaways it’s gotten totally out of control.

How does someone sacrifice and “work their tail off” for sidewalks and wind farms? That’s total disingenuous NIMBY bullsh*t. You don’t believe people need to work for themselves - if you did, you’d never try to legally block what they do with *their own property.* What you want is to control what happens to property and public spaces that you *never worked for*. So stfu about “hard work.”

There is a specific, yet to be named type of psychological rage that exists amongst nonprofit workers and humanities degree holders when they reach adulthood and realize they cannot have the same types of things that their peers who went into business, law, STEM, etc. It is sad to
to watch.

Bingo!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Nimbys are the worst. Seriously. You’re ruining this country.

How is this ruining the country? Because people need to live in areas that comport with their affordability instead of the government trying to get everyone a prize at the expense of current homeowners? No one has a right to live in Arlington. It’s a very nice and expensive place.

I would love a house in Newport Beach. I can’t afford a $8M house so I don’t live there.

because EVERYTHING that is a common good gets opposed by NIMBYs. Preschools, high schools, sidewalks, solar powed, waste treatment plants …

The best thing for the common hood would be for people to understand that if you want something nice in this country you have to sacrifice and work your tail off. In an era of student loan forgiveness, free housing for illegal immigrants, and countless other government giveaways it’s gotten totally out of control.

How does someone sacrifice and “work their tail off” for sidewalks and wind farms? That’s total disingenuous NIMBY bullsh*t. You don’t believe people need to work for themselves - if you did, you’d never try to legally block what they do with *their own property.* What you want is to control what happens to property and public spaces that you *never worked for*. So stfu about “hard work.”

There is a specific, yet to be named type of psychological rage that exists amongst nonprofit workers and humanities degree holders when they reach adulthood and realize they cannot have the same types of things that their peers who went into business, law, STEM, etc. It is sad to
to watch.

That’s a weird projection, considering that you’re mad you couldn’t buy up all your neighbors property.

It’s being bought up by developers who majored in business.

And many are also engineers. This is good because Arlington County staff has no idea how to implement most policies, including MM. Builders had to sit with them and explain the geometry of placing properties on lots, how to add more parking, fire marshal height requirements, etc.