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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nimbys are the worst. Seriously. You’re ruining this country. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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

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.  [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

do we need to set out the change in housing costs over time? [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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