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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll be voting republicans next election. Sadly, I realize there are too many communist/socialist/progressives in MD for my vote to make any difference.

As much as I'd like to live here my whole life (I truly do), I think I'll have to move once I have some financial independence.[/quote]

Where are you going?  Everyone keeps claiming they will leave, but nobody says where they are going.

The states with the most permissive zoning / no zoning are red states.  Go to FL or  TX and you can literally build a quasi-industrial site in residential neighborhoods, not to mention condos or apartments.

It’s quite strange to say you will vote Republican in order to get more government regulation.[/quote]
Virginia[/quote]

You're going to go to Virginia to escape upzoning? Good luck with that. Arlington was the first mover on upzoning in this area with its missing middle concept. [/quote]

Seems to be a smooth process so far lol.

Anyway, the key isn’t necessarily by state.  Buying property just means doing more research.  Potential upzoning is just another potential hazard, like buying in a flood zone. You want to be as close to the water or beach without potentially being in it.

I bought a vacation house, which might eventually be a retirement house, in an area with a structured long term plan.

STRUCTURED. Not lazy libertarian trickle down free for all YIMBYism.

Lots of multifamily being built using old commercial space, industrial space, and vacant lots.  However, there no appetite at all for upzoning SFH, because it’s stupid and ruins the characters of the very neighborhoods that make it a nice place to live and draws people there.  Mixed use is still coming, infrastructure is being improved (IMAGINE THAT), and generally it’s not some libertarian fantasy simcity hellhole.

Then, for a little extra safety, I bought in a legally protected historic district.  So, still might come up near me, but it’s well planned and there will be new stores and shops and the value of my home will go up while I enjoy it.  This is the zoning equivalent of living close to the water but away from the flood zone.  [/quote]

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