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Originally Posted by GGG
But what makes that lifestyle any better than the latte sipping box in the sky achieving the same milestones of an unremarkable life.
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What I was getting at is the idea that the middle-class lifestyle we were brought up to believe in is a fallacy. It doesn't exist. The single family home with a garage and a yard is not a "middle-class" thing any more. Upper middle-class maybe. It would seem to me that rather than accept this and move on/adapt, people are shaking their fists and stamping their feet crying "no fair!" while building what to me look like ugly soviet bloc neighborhoods. Completely unsustainable ugly soviet bloc neighborhoods.
Imagine the amount of disposable income the new "middle class" family would have if they didn't desire to have a single family unit to live in?
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Too much value is placed on this choice.
Really we just need part of the tax based on the square footage of lot you occupy. Pay for what your impact is wether it be SUVs or housing choice.
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Agreed.