so you’re literally just saying people should go homeless then, wonderful!

I’m not american so i can’t speak for that, but here in sweden some examples are Fisksätra in Stockholm, and Gothenburg (my fave city) has two northeastern lines of tram-centric suburbs that are just commie blocks in a forest, a similar slightly smaller suburb to the west which sits at the edge of the urban area, Jonsered which is a group of smaller apartment buildings way out in the forest with a commuter train station, and to the south there’s a new area called Nya Hovås which isn’t quite as removed from other stuff but still has the same feel of being a dense area surrounded by less urban area.

And at least the gothenburg suburbs are perfectly affordable since they have shiteloads of housing and are very much considered low-status areas. Also come to think of it, gothenburg has a bunch of natural (or at least still very pretty green park) areas throughout the city, so arguably many parts of the downtown area count as well.

have you ever walked through a doorway and forgotten what you were doing? even god struggles with memory managemeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee- Process exited with code 1

no i will NOT use more than one line in my scripts

why would it not have brackets? i detest syntax that is only applicable to a handful of situations and has to be specifically memorized separately from how every other part of the language works.

concrete is a magical material

it’s fucking wild how difficult of a concept trash incinerators seems to be for people to grasp, or the idea of melting glass and metal back down into new products.

that’s called terraced housing and it’s really astoundingly enjoyable.

Places that are surprisingly similar to this do exist and unsurprisingly are very fucking nice places to live, and by dint of being high density it’s generally not that outlandish to actually be able to live there.

Look for areas around public transport lines, with a reputation for being largely inhabited by immigrants and poor people, those places at least in sweden tend to be really fucking nice. They get a bad reputation because of racism/classism, but that’s kind of good because it means there’s little competition for the housing and it’s going to be way cheaper than it would otherwise, and having lots of immigrant inhabitants mean there’ll be more neat businesses available to you.

Great, that means people have a place to live.

not sure how you imagine it’s better for those people to just… not have a place to live?

How much land do you think it takes to feed a person?
spoiler warning: it’s slightly more than a suburban yard…

for a while now i’ve maintained that commie blocks (at least over here) are some of the best places to live, and i have to conclude that the only reason people think most other areas are at all appealing is because they have simply never actually been in the commie block areas.

It’s like how my dad had never once even considered the notion of riding a bike, then one day i convinced him to buy an e-bike and since that day he has driven a car… literally 3 times, i think. Once you actually consider the merits of it it’s so obviously better.

I have been to a high-density suburb that is honestly not that far from being the second image, and it was literally so dead quiet that i could reliably use the distant sound of the highway to orient myself.

Seriously. Solid concrete apartments are so impervious to noise that the only times i hear any noise other than them dropping anvils on the floor is when it comes through an open window! I’m more annoyed by people in the room next to me than i am by anyone outside the apartment.

so you’re agreeing it’s a solved problem then, just that wherever you live is refusing to implement it.

that’s true in SFH suburbs too, you don’t magically get to launch rockets in your backyard at midnight.

i can do you one better: 1/3rd each of apartment buildings, quadplexes, and row homes.

This is how they’re building a new development in my town and while it’s pretty fucking sad to see how much more space the low density housing gets, it’s so fucking good to have a mix of densities near each other. It means you don’t get the extreme segregation between young/old, rich/poor, and native/foreign people, and that if you want to move to a different density of housing you don’t have to leave behind all the people you know.

fucking central park???

it really feels like this post is either being brigaded or just straight up astroturfed by bots

i will take literally anything that is denser than single family houses, row homes are generally a pretty good middle ground for most people who can’t fully grow out of the suburban mindset.