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[-] AKADAP@lemmy.ml 93 points 1 year ago

I spent seven years living in an apartment. I so enjoyed hearing the neighbors having sex, the thumping music they played, the smell of their cigarette smoke inside my apartment with all my windows closed, the random intrusions by management to repair something unrelated to my apartment, the random rent increases. Add this to the fact that I had no space for a work shop to make anything, and paying the equivalent of a mortgage with no equivalent home equity. Some people love apartment life, but it definitely was not for me.

[-] notatoad@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the problem seems to be when people take "apartment life isn't for me" and then go to the conclusion of "they shouldn't build apartments for anybody"

you don't have to live in one. just let people build them. only allowing single family homes doesn't make single family homes more accessible for anybody, it just makes land more scarce and housing less affordable all around.

[-] kier@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Of course. Everyone can live in an apartment if they wish. I will be the one with the house at a reasonable distance.

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