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Originally Posted by KTown
My taking on this is if they force us all to move into apartments and crowd us in, isn't that telling us where to live and how to live, isn't that a form of communism?
I'll tell you why I love the suburbs.
A) I hate neighbours, thats why I am moving to an acreage eventually, living in the suburbs minimizes my chance of running into stupid people often..
B) I don't need to pay 400 dollars in condo fees to have someone shovel the walkway out front once every two weeks in the winter, I also don't need to pay for bozo the clown in the complex that likes to keep his window open when its -40 and than crank the heat while he pigs out on chips and sits there in shorts without a shirt on.
C) I got a decent backyard, and its fenced off. I can allow my kid to play in the backyard keep it locked and not worry about them as much. I can still get my stuff done around the house. If I am in a condo I have to go to the park with them, I can't say that I always have the time.
D) I like living in a place thats 2000 square feet and not 800 square feet to raise my children. Sometimes I need my own space.
E) I hate big crowds
F) I like working outside in the summer on the week-end in my yard. I like growing fresh ORGANIC veggies instead of buying crap in the stores in the summer.
G) I work downtown and I can tell you that by the end of the day I am ready to get home and get out downtown. I couldn't imagine working there and living there, I'd feel like I am trapped.
I can go on but I won't I will just get too angry.
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^^^^I agree
I work downtown too and I literally can't stand it.. Every time I walk around down there I can do nothing but shake my head.
I don't get what the love fest is for downtown and the kensington type areas. Is it because people feel safer in the heard of people down there, or is it because people are really concerned about their environmental foot print. Are people that far removed from actual living, they have to fill it up with the constant buzz of people and events to scrape out some kinda of meaning.
I like my neighbours, and the fact they live 100ft away...I like my quite street that nobody else drives on but the people on our street. I like the fact my kid drags his hockey net into the street and shouts CAR ever 10 min.... I love the fact my boy will leave his bike and helmet where he jumped off the bike... I really love the fact its still there when he comes back. Half the time I don't lock my door.. When I drive home from downtown, I don't see a brown fog encasing my house.
I'd argue that high density is not as DRAMATICALLY more energy efficient as people like to make out. I'd say people would produce about the same ammount of waste.. consume similar amounts of electricity, gas. Granted there would be more fuel consumed in a suburban area, but if people were't so BENT on putting everything in the core people could live closer to work.
I also have a couple thousand SF of roof I could turn into an electricty generating operation should I so desire... do that in a 27 story condo unit.. My house was built using the newest window technology, high efficiancy appliances and materials. Likely a sight bettter then a 60 year old condo complex.
I'm not saying urban living is wrong, but I am saying that people arguing for the quality of life and enviromental utopian downtown core, have to take a look around and grab onto some reality.. David Suzuki doesn't live in a condo, and I bet if you asked him, he rather enjoys his "oasis"....I bet he has solar pannels too
