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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.

how exactly do you think they manage all the major construction in Ballston etc? NIMBYs are hilarious with all of the transparently fake arguments.

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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.

Because the dirty little secret is that most of the complaints are bs. They want fully updated and renovated houses and are unwilling to put in the sweat equity previous generations did. The missing starter houses of yore were very basic and got upgraded over time.

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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.

Because the dirty little secret is that most of the complaints are bs. They want fully updated and renovated houses and are unwilling to put in the sweat equity previous generations did. The missing starter houses of yore were very basic and got upgraded over time.

do we need to set out the change in housing costs over time?

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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.

They are not remotely credible, it's literally a corporate propaganda campaign for developers. The US is never going to be Tokyo and most voters do not want community to look like Tokyo. If you are so obsessed with Tokyo why don't you just move there and leave everyone else alone.

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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.

This is so true. Yimbys are a bunch of people with useless degrees and too much student loan debt that made bad life decisions.

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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.

This is so true. Yimbys are a bunch of people with useless degrees and too much student loan debt that made bad life decisions.

there’s nothing more pathetic than an old boomer refusing to change and holding on to his broke down ratty SFH with no sidewalk as if it were Versailles.

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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.

Because the dirty little secret is that most of the complaints are bs. They want fully updated and renovated houses and are unwilling to put in the sweat equity previous generations did. The missing starter houses of yore were very basic and got upgraded over time.

do we need to set out the change in housing costs over time?

Sure, if you'd like to cross-correlate inflation adjusted absolute costs with interest rates and the. determine the relativities between the various categories and markets that would be very interesting.


A whole new industry (flippers) has developed to exploit this very trend. People do not want to put any work into a house. They want it already fixed up with new appliances etc.

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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.

This is so true. Yimbys are a bunch of people with useless degrees and too much student loan debt that made bad life decisions.

there’s nothing more pathetic than an old boomer refusing to change and holding on to his broke down ratty SFH with no sidewalk as if it were Versailles.

I am not a boomer. I am a millennial and unlike you I actually have respect for elderly people. I don't derisively insult people when they have a different opinion than me and treat them like dirt.

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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.

Because the dirty little secret is that most of the complaints are bs. They want fully updated and renovated houses and are unwilling to put in the sweat equity previous generations did. The missing starter houses of yore were very basic and got upgraded over time.

do we need to set out the change in housing costs over time?

Sure, if you'd like to cross-correlate inflation adjusted absolute costs with interest rates and the. determine the relativities between the various categories and markets that would be very interesting.


A whole new industry (flippers) has developed to exploit this very trend. People do not want to put any work into a house. They want it already fixed up with new appliances etc.

that was a bunch of nonsense, as per usual.

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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.

This is so true. Yimbys are a bunch of people with useless degrees and too much student loan debt that made bad life decisions.

there’s nothing more pathetic than an old boomer refusing to change and holding on to his broke down ratty SFH with no sidewalk as if it were Versailles.

I am not a boomer. I am a millennial and unlike you I actually have respect for elderly people. I don't derisively insult people when they have a different opinion than me and treat them like dirt.

^downpayment paid by boomer daddy; now believes he put “sweat equity” into his ugly Arlington SFH.

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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.

This is so true. Yimbys are a bunch of people with useless degrees and too much student loan debt that made bad life decisions.

there’s nothing more pathetic than an old boomer refusing to change and holding on to his broke down ratty SFH with no sidewalk as if it were Versailles.

I am not a boomer. I am a millennial and unlike you I actually have respect for elderly people. I don't derisively insult people when they have a different opinion than me and treat them like dirt.

^downpayment paid by boomer daddy; now believes he put “sweat equity” into his ugly Arlington SFH.

Wrong. I didn't get any money from my parents to buy my house. I just dislike entitled YIMBYs

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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.

This is so true. Yimbys are a bunch of people with useless degrees and too much student loan debt that made bad life decisions.

there’s nothing more pathetic than an old boomer refusing to change and holding on to his broke down ratty SFH with no sidewalk as if it were Versailles.

I am not a boomer. I am a millennial and unlike you I actually have respect for elderly people. I don't derisively insult people when they have a different opinion than me and treat them like dirt.

^downpayment paid by boomer daddy; now believes he put “sweat equity” into his ugly Arlington SFH.

Wrong. I didn't get any money from my parents to buy my house. I just dislike entitled YIMBYs

the ultimate entitlement is believing you are entitled to control what a whole city and your neighbors do with their property. unfortunately the law allows that for now, but it will change.

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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.

This is so true. Yimbys are a bunch of people with useless degrees and too much student loan debt that made bad life decisions.

there’s nothing more pathetic than an old boomer refusing to change and holding on to his broke down ratty SFH with no sidewalk as if it were Versailles.

I am not a boomer. I am a millennial and unlike you I actually have respect for elderly people. I don't derisively insult people when they have a different opinion than me and treat them like dirt.

^downpayment paid by boomer daddy; now believes he put “sweat equity” into his ugly Arlington SFH.

Wrong. I didn't get any money from my parents to buy my house. I just dislike entitled YIMBYs

the ultimate entitlement is believing you are entitled to control what a whole city and your neighbors do with their property. unfortunately the law allows that for now, but it will change.

I never said that. I just don’t fall for the developer BS that we should just eliminate zoning altogether and hope that the schools, infrastructure, traffic will somehow magically work out. All of this stuff cost taxpayers money, so they reasonably expect to have a say in the zoning decisions for their county. If you can avoid using the public roads, schools, water/sewer infrastructure, please feel free to build whatever you want on your property. Otherwise county voters should have a say over the zoning for property because those development decisions impact their property taxes.

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

That's right - ignore that the infrastructure cannot handle the added capacity of the proposed development.

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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.

This is so true. Yimbys are a bunch of people with useless degrees and too much student loan debt that made bad life decisions.

there’s nothing more pathetic than an old boomer refusing to change and holding on to his broke down ratty SFH with no sidewalk as if it were Versailles.

DP. This comment shows the entitlement and disdain YIMBYs have for working and middle class SFH homeowners, suggesting that our modest homes are unworthy of existing and are just “tear downs”. For so many of us, this home is our dwelling and an investment in our now and our future. It took us years - for some, decades - to save for these homes. And yet YIMBYs not only mock our homes but demand they have instant access to homes without any of the hard work it takes to save for one.

So much for the YIMBY concern for the middle classes …. The same homeowners the PP mocks above.