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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to live in an extremely dense city, you can move. No one is stopping you. Go to New York City. Go to Tokyo. Go to Mumbai.

The rest of us like DC how it is. There's a ton of people here but it's a rare big city that is actually livable and -- gasp! -- pretty.

I don't want to live in a glorified college dorm, living cheek to jowl with my neighbors. Have you been to NYC? It sucks. I mean, nice to visit and all but who wants to live like that? No, thank you. [/quote]

Nobody is talking about making you live in a dorm.

Nobody is talking about making DC like Mumbai.

And if people didn't want to live in the kind of housing you don't like, the builders wouldn't build it.[/quote]

Builders can always sell or rent something at a price, although that price may be less than the developer’s business model.  But the point is, the people who live in these very livable neighborhoods don’t want to see them transformed into someplace where they lose much of their character, those qualities that makes those neighborhoods unique, attractive places to live and raise a family.  Why do these successful, stable neighborhoods all have to become generic mixed-use fast casual taller denser sameness ?[/quote]

The point is, the people who live in these very livable neighborhoods don't want more people living in them.

I'm also amazed at how these dreadful, destructive taller buildings can be

1. Only there to make money for builders
2. Only for people with a lot of money
3. Things nobody wants
4. Half-vacant

all at the same time.[/quote]

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