Is the alternative that we all rent/buy (?) apartments? That sounds awful to me. I’ve lived in apartments my entire life and it is not pleasant due to the large amount of people that absolutely fucking suck. I would love to put some space between myself and these assholes. Ideally, I’d like to not really have neighbors at all after my lifetime of experiences.
The alternative is that not everything needs to be either a skyscraper or a single family home. The phenomenon is called “missing middle housing”, even has a wiki article you can read. Some people need to live in a flat due to not being able to afford a house. Property value would drop if middle housing became a thing - because developers wouldn’t be able to scalp you on a house you need to have, because you could just get a cheap flat instead. Living in a 6-flat building is an entirely different thing from leaving in a huge block of flats too.
Like half of Europe lives like this.
That’s interesting. While there are some outliers, there are only really 2 types of “urban” areas I’ve seen across the US. The single family/town home neighborhood and the apartment/businesses neighborhood. That’s pretty broad, of course, but it covers a lot of it. Perhaps if there was more variety things would be better. I still think I’d like to move out of the city, personally, I’m burnt out on people.
Townhomes, for the US.
Wait, I’m stupid and didn’t read it all. I’m seeing a pattern of mistakes on my end.
Some of the best neighborhoods I’ve seen/lived in in America have been neighborhoods that were built ~100 years ago when zoning didn’t really restrict things. You’d end up with mansions next to smaller homes next to duplexes and apartments. Some of the mansions end up divided into multi-unit housing. A person can be born in the neighborhood, and live their whole life there moving into different housing types as they need to. You can end up with greater social cohesion across age and socioeconomic ranges. If a kid from a working class family grows up in an apartment across the street from a wealthy kid, they will have more social mobility than of they were in segregated neighborhoods.
To add to this, the ask isn’t to build more apartments, the ask is to LET US
Single Family Zoning makes higher density housing illegal. If there are people who WANT to live in apartments they don’t have that freedom because it’s illegal in so much of the US.
No one wants to force you to live in an apartment, we just want to be able to choose to if we want to. let the market decide if we want houses or apartments
While there are other options which have been mentioned to death in the comments below. I’d also like to point out that this could be less of an issue if Apartments were not built like absolute trash shit garbage.
There is no reason you could not build an apartment by taking a standard single family home that you would find in a more rural like area and the simply stacking another one on top of it and continuing that until you no longer get approval to go higher.
Apartments are small, with crappy layouts, and generally cheap materials that makes it difficult to sound isolate. We don’t have to make them like that we could just make an actual fucking house with proper materials and then just put another fucking house on top of it and another fucking house on top of that one and so on
Whenever people say this, my first response is: you should support building mixed use/mixed density.
You would have an easier time affording a single family home if there were a couple of duplexes, quad plexes, and low rise apartments around, with some small shops in the ground level.
Fewer people competing for the same single family homes and close access to bodegas and bistros. Easier time finding babysitters and dog walkers too.
We don’t all have to love like Manhattan. Most of the nicest neighborhood in America are mixed density.
I used to think apartments sucked until I lived in a concrete and brick unit. It was amazing how quiet they were. The concrete walls blocked out all noise of my neighbors and traffic. I made some good friends in the units next to mine and those were honestly 2 of the best years of my life. I miss living like that
Dog a two bedroom apartment down the street from me costs $2,750 a month. I lived there for years. My two bedroom house has a mortgage of $2,170 a month that I get equity in, has more space and a basement, no degenerate crackheads busting my car window at night anymore, and I can actually hang stuff on my walls without losing a security deposit.
Plus I don’t have to go pick up my Amazon packages at the front desk between the hours of 9am to 5pm weekdays, that shit just gets delivered to me. And I don’t have to fight with property managers to fix my God damn washing machine for three months because they refuse to order a new motor for it. I even get to park in my driveway ten feet from my front door now and not park three lots away because there’s not enough space for everybody who lives at the apartments to park.
All the years I spent renting apartments has been a disgrace compared to what it’s like to own a house. Choke on my balls, Bell Partners Incorporated. Large scale shared living situations that are run by faceless corporations and government entities like section 8 housing and apartment complexes feel like incubators that turn normal happy people into suicidal misanthropes. Fuck cars, and fuck apartments
It sounds like most of your grievances are due to renting vs ownership. I’ve definitely had similar experiences, but most of things aren’t issues with decent duplex/townhouse/condos that you own.
The real problem is the huge corporations building apartment complexes with the cheapest materials and no thought of proper urban fabric while dressing them up like something off the magnolia network and renting them as “luxury apartments”. You end up paying top dollar for a shitty pile of monochromatic chipboard and petroleum distillates.
Not the previous commenter, but your comment was spot on and reminds me that I have actually rented apartments with “magnolia” in the name that looked nice from 500’ away, but were poorly build and poorly managed shitholes.
Lol, that’s exactly it. The pictures all look nice, until you actually live there and realize everything is crooked, built from paper, and held together with paint.
“dog a tuah …bedroom apartment”
That sounds like a dream. Just the other night, the chick across the hall kicked her dude out after they argued in the hall for three hours. I had to listen to him stomp back and forth until 4am and knock everytime to be let back in a he collected his shit. Fucking trashy motherfuckers.
That’s just not realistic in major metro areas anymore. We need to do more to foster a sense of community in buildings because we can’t build enough housing any other way.
“I would be all for this, but you people all suck.”
Exactly! Lol
The issue is that everyone in the long chain of apartment construction tries to cut corner to pocket more money.
So you get these cheap cardboard new apartment where you hear everything happening in the building.
It doesn’t have to be like that. But the mentalities need to change, and the fuckfaces contractors need to be held accountable for their shitty work.
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I’m convinced this is all marketing done by her and her team.
It’s only through memes like this so I remember she exists.
The last time this came up, several people pointed out that the source mistook a parody article for genuine reporting.
This is along the same lines as those “John Cena forgot to save between the cutscene and the boss fight” headlines.You’re right
I continues to astound he what little it takes to become “famous”
Especially on the most lowbrow humour possibility
Yeah this is not real tho
For some reason she gets quoted with opinions that she never even expressed.
People are using her to make their opinions popular. She’s, dare I say, a victim in this situation.
You should have lived through the time of Adam Sandler
Unfortunately, I do be over 30, so I have partly, even when I’m not american
And sadly, it’s still the time of Adam Sandler 😭
He doesn’t need money anymore. He can do dumb movies with his friends and they get paid, more power to him.
I know I would the same thing.
good luck over the pond, i barely even hard the name in the last decade
Especially on the most lowbrow humour possibility
thats how you get famous , appeal to lowest common denominator
Being an attractive white woman helps a lot.
I continues to astound he what little it takes to become “famous”
She got picked up by an agency that went full tilt on promotion. There are an enormous number of man hours being expended to get you to care about what this person has to say. No small feat, when you consider how many people feel the urge to post and repost this shit.
Loved her quantum mechanics episode. Mostly went over my head but very interesting.
Does she have a podcast or something?
It’s called “Talk Tuah”.
Really fucking desperate to stay relevant I see.
Ryan George had the perfect skit for these types of people trying to turn their 5 minutes of fame into 5 years
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
To pierce the veil a bit, yes, the meme is that somehow the podcast is amazing and insightful, even though in reality it’s pretty meh.
Who?
I still don’t know what she is famous for. Should I care about this?
She’s basically manufactured at this point
Source?edit: Anyone have a source of her saying this?
No, its a meme format, the whole tuah thing is ridiculous and completely unserious, so you attribute to her serious and heavy topics
…that low density zoning fits less people per square meter and requires more infrastructure than higher density housing?
I was asking for a source of her actually saying this.
I wasn’t debating the claim. I’ll fix my comment.
Well, I feel silly now. I didn’t realize that I was seeing the solarpunk memes content.
Poor health? My air is certainly cleaner than downtown NYC.
Now if major cities banned cars we’d be getting somewhere.
Air quality can certainly be impacted by density, but neighbourhoods that aren’t car dependent promote exercise by giving people the ability to lak or bike wehn going out instead of driving (which can also help the overall air quality).
Isn’t it just a joke? I saw a similar one last week about quantum mechanics I think, she never said anything like this afaik
I think this could be stemming from another creator’s jokes.
Her name is “CitiesbyDiana”. I believe she started doing Cities Skylines and Truck Simulator content but that transformed over time into talking about urbanism in real life. She makes short-form videos that are hyper-edited “brainrot” and usually have AI voices. Either celebrities like Trump and Biden or OC characters like “Lane Man”- a prodigy of Robert Moses who advocates for paving the entire world with highways.
She’s also moved to to other things. If you’ve seen memes about food or pharmaceutical grade glycine from Dongua Jjnglong, it originated with her ironically simping for the company as a joke.
I’ve noticed she’s started to use AI to manipulate videos from podcasts, including Talk Tuah. I haven’t seen this particular one video, but this seems right in line with the kind of content she creates.
What’s wrong with social isolation?
No. We must all live in box apartments. Who cares if you like going into your garage to work on your car/motorcycle/carpentry/fabrication, who cares if you want a yard for your dogs, or don’t want to share a wall and elevator with your neighbors. We all must enjoy living in apartment complexes. And if not you will enjoy the complex staring down into your backyard.
I think someone missed your sarcasm.
And they assume I own the place I’m living. Some of these people live on the internet and like their boxes.
What’s unhealthier is living in a cramped apartment space with noise and smell pollution.
Theres nothing wrong with car-centric if done right, not everywhere needs to be a dense urban environment.
Lets tax the wealthy appropriately before suggesting we need to suck taxes out of regular fucks by packing them like sardines.
People need to stop believing that their preferred way of living is optimal or necessarily better. Sometimes I doubt anyone wants to live this way, and maybe it’s just a ploy by landlords to get more tenants per unit of architecture.
Lastly, if you want to live in a “community” or “commune”, then go ahead. If someone else prefers isolated spaces and they’re paying taxes on what they have, that’s okay too.
This is sub is not solar punk, it’s more tired communist propaganda.
