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
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
ironically, no reasonable human wants to be near him anyway
Wasnt aware, tbh I don’t really follow social media news too much. Absolutely wild tho. The incident I was talking about would have happened in the mid to late 2000s.
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.