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Originally Posted by Cawz
This is the exact same thing that will happen when the home prices increase due to costs that trickle down from the city through the developers. When the try to put the brakes on sprawl, what do you think is more likely – that people will then buy a downtown condo or move to Airdrie?
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That's a pretty narrow way of looking at it. It's not that there can be no suburbs, it's that they have to be planned better. A proper mix of commercial, single family, and multi family. It's pathetic to look at some of the communities that were built in the last decade. Some of them don't even have a 7/11, let alone a bus to take them to the closest community with a 7/11.
It's just so illogical. Mile after mile of single family home. It's impossible to live in one of these communities without having a car, and while that's the buyer's choice, what is going to happen in a few years when the kids are getting old enough to go have a social life? Then the question will be "where's the transit?".
How can you not see that the way things are being done right now is going to bite us in the ass HARD unless someone with a thimbleful of sense starts controlling the growth?