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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't YIMBY people understand that people move to the suburbs because they want to live in the suburbs? Not everyone wants a small apartment and walkability. Some of us want yards and space [/quote]

This is why you are selfish and what you don’t understand. It’s not only that I personally prefer high-density urban planning and walkability. It’s that if more people lived this way, then we wouldn’t have the suburban garbage like stroads and strip malls and sprawl. If you house 20 families in an acre as opposed to one or two families, then that acreage can turn back into forest land, or green space, and be home to more biodiversity, OR it can be used for local farming, OR solar fields to power the neighborhoods. Land is finite and it better used that way than for empty lawns and gas-guzzling SUVs. [/quote]

Your second sentence is what people are trying to explain. You prefer high density, which is fine. Many of us don’t. You clearly hate the suburbs. Again you’re entitled to your opinion but many of us prefer them and seek them out. Live downtown in your dense area but not everyone wants that.

Why do I need to live in a way I don’t want to so you can turn my yard into forest or farming just because you like density. [/quote]

You miss the point. It’s not just that I like density. Me liking density is secondary to me liking biodiversity. Sprawl harms biodiversity and the environment. Your chemical sprayed lawn that Kayden and Jayden play soccer in for ten minutes once a month in between video games could be home to endangered wildlife. [/quote]

Hate to disappoint you but our suburban lawn that is chemical free, is also in a heavily wooded neighborhood with a lake and tons of wildlife. The wildlife many posts on here ask how to kill or remove. Our kids and their friends spend lots of time out in the yard since they have the space to run around that doesn’t require going to [b]some public park. [/b]

Again, people like different things. But somehow people have forgotten that people can respect differing views. [/quote]

Having to go to some public park would certainly be terrible. But you know what's even worse than public parks? Public schools! Public transit is also terrible, of course. Public safety? Terrible. Public health? Terrible. Public services? Terrible. Public roads are the absolute worst, of course.

(I am not being sincere.)[/quote]

Obviously you’re not being sincere but you do seem to have missed the point. PP was simply confirming that some of us like when our kids can play in our own yards and don’t have to go elsewhere to find green space.  [/quote]

Of course. What child wouldn't prefer to play in a small backyard, with few or no other children, than at a large playground with plenty of other children?[/quote]

Our neighborhood has large yards and tons of kids. After the age of about 7 what kids prefer a playground to playing with their own friends in their neighborhood?[/quote]

After the age of about 7, what kids want to be stuck under parental supervision in their own yard?[/quote]

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