West Coast baby

  • Spaceinv8er@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I understand what’s trying to be said here but I’d pass on that.

    I’ve lived in apartments most my life. Now that I live in a home that has a backyard, a garage, can’t hear what my neighbors are saying, don’t need to pay for laundry, don’t need to go down an elevator to throw away garbage, and don’t have to worry about people pissing in the elevator. I’m not going back to an apartment.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      All those issues are not intrinsic to apartments. We can have nice apartments too. Sure, cheap ones will cut corners, but it’s not required.

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      1 year ago

      I can’t hear my neighbors, don’t need an elevator, and don’t need a garage because I don’t need a car. I don’t have a back yard but I’m pretty close to a massive city park. This apartment is pretty okay.

      Meanwhile the suburbs were just crushing isolation and cultural wasteland. And needing to drive everywhere was awful.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      There is a middle ground between single family housing and high density housing, it’s just not less common in the US than either apartments or single family housing.

      Medium density housing, duplexes, quadruplexes, and town homes.

      And yeah crappy apartments with little to no sound dampening are really common. At my brother’s apartment I can hear his neighbor’s coffee pot turn on both outside and inside the apartment building. Shit’s got tissues for walls I swear.