Or the people are just spontaneously dumb?
I mean, what’s the point of living in a gated community if you need to drive to places filled with poors to buy shit, or have a beer, or hook up with someone in your tax bracket, or etc?
These are places where to sleep but not to live, and they put them really fucking away from basic needs. C'mon at least just put a fucking grocery store with overpriced tomatoes
But, what's the point of living in a gated community if you need to drive to the place filled with poors to buy shit, or have a beer, or etc
Honestly the appeal of these places that are way far out is probably a) mostly that it’s so normalized but b) just owning a home of any decent size can be increeeedibly expensive if it is located near amenities. So you live in a house that would cost 3x as much if it wasn’t on the edge of nothing bc otherwise you and your wife and 3 kids would be in a shoe box apt or a small 1 or 2 bedroom house that was built in 46 that is falling apart. That’s how it is here anyway
THIS WOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE IF THERE WERE AMENITIES THERE
I’m saying they would cost more most likely if there were near amenities. Under the current way things are now anyway, not like an ideal situation. At least where I am homes on the outskirts run between 180-300k. that price for a home more centrally (not even really central just in more from the edges) located near shit is literally a box house falling down with no central ac or anything, or they just straight up don’t exist and everything is just under 1m at the lowest
You kind of get them early and “cheap” and usually the city builds out around them later
What I'm saying is this: Let's say you build 10 houses, and only one is close to amenities. That one house is now mad expensive because all the rich people want to buy it. But that is only the case because the other 9 aren't, if every house is close to amenities the issue doesn't really exist any more, at least not to that extent, because it's not like rich people will just buy every house for themselves just because it has amenities. This kind of planning makes 0 sense.
Actually this reminded me of an anecdote, I had a rich friend in college that lived in a very large house on the north side of Chicago. Anyway a person in their neighborhood bought the neighboring multi million dollar house and then leveled it bc he wanted the extra yard space between him and the neighbor lol
:back-to-me-shining:
that friend: Mark Zuckerberg
Ironically last I talk to that person they did work at Facebook lol
You must know about this
That’s fair this is just what I’ve observed in my experience trying to find places to live for me and my family.
Definitely agree it makes no sense from perspective the providing for people’s needs. I can only assume it exists to squeeze a bit extra profit out of the homes for developers and/or maintain a sort of housing caste system in the city.
Why would you build amenities near the cheap houses instead of externalizing the costs via mandatory car ownership?
I get it, but, just, let one from each 100 houses be a minimarket fffs
The petty bourgeoisie is being ripped off as well.
De facto segregation
Americans are terrified of other people and want to stay away from "randoms" as much as possible. It's been this way as long as I've been alive.
I mean, have you ever met a murican? Most are insane