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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't YIMBYs be happy living in their crowded apartment buildings in NoMa or Navy Yard, or whatever the new hotspot is, and walking to whatever fancy restaurants and gyms make them happy, and leave the rest of us alone? It always feels like, deep down, they are miserable and want to spread that misery to everyone.[/quote]

Bingo.  Miserable people who resent anyone who lives in a single-family home with a nice yard.  This thread is hilarious.[/quote]

It's a bunch of self congratulatory wannabee intellectuals that can't afford a SFH in..... Del Ray, so they want to instead ruin it for those that can. Imagine the level of entitlement it takes to tell other people how they need to live.[/quote]

Imagine the level of entitlement it takes to tell other people what they are and aren't allowed to do with their own property.[/quote]

This is what I don’t understand about YIMBYs. It’s not surprising that people why buy homes within a SFH neighborhood choose the location because they want to be IN a SFH neighborhood. [b]If an apartment building goes up nextdoor they are no longer in the neighborhood they bought in.
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  If you already live in a mixed use community that gets more densely developed that’s a different story because it doesn’t change the entire structure of the neighborhood. [/quote]

Imagine the level of entitlement it takes to tell your neighbor that they're not allowed to build a building on their property, because you don't like change.[/quote]

There must be a major difference/disconnect in how people feel about their neighborhoods. It’s clear that there are those that truly feel that you should only care about your own house and not care about the neighborhood as a whole or what you’re living nextdoor to.

There are also many of us who value our neighborhoods as a whole, whether it’s a TH development, a SFH development or condo community. We bought based on the entire neighborhood and not just our personal homes. If we wanted to live next to a business or apartment or whatever, we would have bought next to one.   [/quote]

There's a meaningful distinction between "care about" and "own". I care about my neighborhood. I don't tell my neighbor he can't paint his door a color I don't like.

If you don't want to live next to a business or apartment or whatever, then you need to buy the property next door.[/quote]

There’s a big difference in living next to a home with a door color you don’t care for and living next to a multi family unit in your SFH neighborhood. Not remotely a similar comparison. [/quote]

So it's not ok to tell my neighbor he can't paint his door purple because I don't like purple, but it is ok to tell my neighbor he can't build a duplex because I don't want to live next to a duplex?

If I told my neighbor he can't build a duplex because I don't want to live next to a duplex, my neighbor would ask me how much I'm offering him to buy his property.[/quote]

Are you being purposely obtuse? If zoning is for SFH then you’re not able to tell your neighbor what they can or can’t build. Zoning takes care of it. There are many people who do NOT want the zoning changed to allow different types of structures. It’s not about telling your neighbor what you personally want. It’s about leaving the zoning as is. [/quote]

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