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Old 08-31-2017, 08:51 AM   #81
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Sprawl is an issue of cost and density

Most people would like to live closer to the inner city if they could live in an SFH there. So what you are saying is that a person with the means to live in an SFH in the inner city does not cause sprawl and a person who only can afford an SFH in the burbs causes sprawl.

This is just economic prejudice.

If you choose to live in an SFH you are a cause of Sprawl. If you make a choice to live in a denser dwelling regardless of location you aren't.
I agree there is an economic underpinning. Houses in inner city neighborhoods are more expensive. "Prejudice"? Um no... not any more prejudice than all the folks driving nicer cars than I have...

there is a choice people are making, and that the developers have been providing: Spending 400 K for a two bedroom condo in the core or spend that same 400 K and own a lot in the burbs.

For young families who can't afford 700k - 900K for a townhouse or house in the inner city, I get why you would make that choice. But its still a choice...plenty of people in denser cities live and raise families in condos just fine...and if they choose to move out to the burbs, that's their choice

YOU are saying people living in inner city neighborhoods were the cause of urban sprawl. I said that was laughable...
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