32 volt boater
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What’s precisely wrong other then using a lot of land for driveways and gardens.
But people have to live somewhere. The alternative are high rise apartments, Better land use but issues with livability. For better or for worse in many countries people want a garden , a driveway , etc.mcmansion
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But anyway all the woods by where I grew up massive beautiful trees many probably over 100 years they chopped absolutely everything for not real mc mansions but wanna-be 3 and 4 bedroom mcmansions. Cheap stupid flakeboard and pavement everywhere, sidewalks, streetlights, cul de stupids. Strip away every bit of topsoil and lay sod on top of clay so the "my lawn" my whole self worth is "my lawn" suburbanite clowns and their sprinkler systems 50lb bags of 'weed n feed' poisons, gallons and gallons of roundup and bug killer sprays on the 10% unpaved left into the water table down the storm drains.
But people have to live somewhere. The alternative are high rise apartments, Better land use but issues with livability. For better or for worse in many countries people want a garden , a driveway , etc.
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What happened was the original suburbia with similar housing density, small houses on wooded lots with narrow roads and no streetlights or sidewalks became the exclusive areas and those mini mc mansion cud e sac atrocities where they trashed every last bit of nature became the crap areas.
I don’t disagree , planners need to limit house sizes , limit gardens and encourage centre of city living. Sadly it’s not popular in money buys all societies.Turning this
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What happened was the original suburbia with similar housing density, small houses on wooded lots with narrow roads and no streetlights or sidewalks became the exclusive areas and those mini mc mansion cud e sac atrocities where they trashed every last bit of nature became the crap areas.
I don’t disagree , planners need to limit house sizes , limit gardens and encourage centre of city living. Sadly it’s not popular in money buys all societies.
Yes but suburban sprawl is consuming natural land and destroying habitats. It’s a terrible area to bring public services to and forces people into a car cultureNo I refuse to live in some ugly, busy, cramped center-of-city squallor. I currently live in a suburban area (ish, 2 seconds down the road is nothing but cornfield lol) but not some "mcmansion." I'd love to have a handful of acres though.
Do not cram me in some stinkin' city. I lived there once. I was sick of it in short order, and it wasn't even the middle of it.
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Good thing the gov has funded rural fibre broadband. I get 1G/s fibre to the house in a very rural areaI get there are pros and cons to both urban and rural, and everyone has their preferences. But generally speaking I'll take rural first, suburban next. You can not convince me to live inside a city by choice. The noise, the crowds, expensive for the space you have, renting is the worst as you never build any equity that way and you're at the mercy of the landlord to get things fixed if something breaks (it took over a year to get ours to fix our stupid AC, and I fixed other things myself because it was such a hassle), less privacy, yadda yadda...
At least in the suburb I own my bit of land, that I can grow a small garden on, have a garage for my car (...when I get it cleaned out lol), and actually own the house that while yeah that means I directly foot the repair bills, it is still my property and I can change what I want if I want. Oh, and I'm paying the same per month in mortgage, taxes, and insurance combined as I did for the apartment I rented that was half the space, no garage, and no land at all. The only good thing about that apartment was the restaurants were only 5-10 min away, but we don't go out to eat that much. I don't miss it one bit.
One thing that keeps me from going too rural is I need good broadband internet and that is hard to come by out in the sticks.
Good thing the gov has funded rural fibre broadband. I get 1G/s fibre to the house in a very rural area