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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because the most affordable cities I can think of are Vienna and Berlin. So affordable in fact, that neither cities nor countries are well below population replacement (taxes and quasi taxes and policies that they’re not forming families).

I’ll ask you and everyone else again, East of the Anacostia is very affordable. You can buy right now. So why don’t you and everyone else live there? I want to hear why.[/quote]
They never answer directly, only with whataboutism. It's not just EOTR, there's College Park, Hyattsville, Riverdale, etc. all great communities and still very affordable.[/quote]

This is pretty rich considering that offering up EOTR as a counterargument to increasing density throughout the city is literally whataboutism.[/quote]

Not an either or on development elsewhere.

It is a serious question. Why don’t YOU live East of the Anacostia? Tell us why. What is it? It has everything you claim you like. Including diversity.

Even without pointing out your disgusting hypocrisy, you figure that identifying actual problems would suggest what to fix first. If half the city is unlivable, why is that?

Classic urbanists answers though. Instead of making yourself better, you intend to make others and other places worse.[/quote]

EOTR lacks the infrastructure and destinations that make the other parts more desirable.  It is a food dessert.  There are few grocery stores, fewer restaurants, and places just across the river do not deliver.  The metro stops are few and far between.  It is difficult to bike due to the topography and lack of bike lanes.  And every time something nice is offered, the parameters get watered down until it is nothing that was promised.  Example:  Circle K on MLK Jr was to become mixed use shopping with a grocery store, something that is needed on that Main Street corridor.  Now they are trying to put in health care offices.  There are already 5-6 healthcare facilities in a three block radius.

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That's a lot of words to say "I don't want to live near Black people." But it's a typical attitude of the GGW crowd.[/quote]

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