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Originally Posted by Muta

No one is telling you what's best for your 'needs'. Nobody.

It would certainly seem that way when people are advocating to stop building suburban communities which people want and replace them with high density housing that they don't want.

It may not be "forced" but when the houses that people want are no longer be built and the only option is to go to the new high density, inner city apartments it would appear to be pretty damn close to forcing them.

It is hoped, though, that one makes the proper choices through proper research in deciding where to live; one should suffer the consequences of deciding where exactly that location is. Calgary is a roads-based city, and and thus choosing to live in outlying areas comes with a heavy price financially and environmentally. Choosing to live that far out also contributes to the steady rise in municipal taxation, mainly from the simple reason that resources and infrastructure need to be continually expanded outward.

Proper choices based on what your vision of proper is?

If people have to suffer these terrible prices and yet continually move out to these communities it would appear that they are making the proper choices and that even with all the negative side-effects suburban living is still the better choice than inner city living.

No one is saying they have all the answers; but when urban sprawl is a serious problem in today's environmental and energy based world, something has to give.

Urban sprawl seems to be working just fine now. Energy prices don't seem to be stopping people., the environment is doing just fine as well.

What IS arrogant, however, is choosing to ignore this because you have a fundamental right to live that far out. No one is denying that you do; that doesn't make your decision right, however.

Just because you don't like people living outside the core doesn't make your decision right.

What I find arrogant is the position that your opinions are right and that people living in the suburbs obviously just ignore everything that is "important."

The choice to live in areas that continue to weigh heavy on resources and infrastructure will continue to increase in becoming an unpopular one.

Unpopular with who? The self-righteous inner city folk? David F'ing Suzuki? Not sure that people should base their choices on the opinions of those folks.

These neighborhoods/homes seem to be going up at a pretty good rate so it would seem that they are popular with plenty of people.

When you say that people aren't going to be forced into high density inner city living but we see that they don't want to live in that type of housing I guess I am confused then how they are going to change their minds without some sort of force.

Oil prices have shot up. Environmental whiners are getting more press time and "credibility" than ever and yet people still prefer to live in homes outside the core of the city. Inner city supporters can rail on and on about how terrible it is to live out of the core and that things need to change but so long as the majority still wants those types of housing and lifestyles I don't see how it is the cities job/right to tell them they can't.

Oh thats right they aren't telling them they can't live in those houses they are just making sure that those houses aren't being built for them to live in.