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  • What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford?

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  • Yeah, could be. I said elsewhere in this thread that I think they're conflating renting with apartments. They said that buying an apartment is a "scam", and I didn't follow up with "but people rent houses, too."

    I could see why eternal renting is depressing, but that's not the same as living in an apartment.

  • What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford?

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  • What parts of the US have you visited? I've only really spent time in the NYC area. Many apartments in NYC are pretty nice, though I can't judge their electrical quality. When I lived outside the city, I rarely had problems with hearing neighbors.

    I don't think most people really want to build a small workshop in their day to day. I did know a guy who got up to some weird shit in his apartment's back yard. Bunch of artists doing weird metal sculpting stuff.

    Again, I just prefer open spaces and not being surrounded by people I dont know and probably won’t get along with.

    That's fine, man. You don't need to live in a city. But I don't think it's accurate to say most or even "99%" of people feel the same. Many people are happy in denser living spaces.

  • What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford?

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  • Well, I don't know. Where do you live? Where do you want to live? There are sites like zillow that let you search, but there's other listings and word of mouth. A combined budget of $1k for rent and bills isn't going to go very far most places.

  • What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford?

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  • Not every apartment is tiny. I don't have the measurements for mine but it feels comfortable with two desks, a couch, a coffee table, and some bookcases. Plus there's the bedroom with a queen size bed, bookcases, another desk, and dresser. The kitchen is admittedly a little small. This isn't a fancy apartment, and its priced pretty average for the city. I'm pretty sure all the units in this building are about the same.

    I very rarely hear my neighbors. I play music through speakers and (I've asked) they never hear me.

    Also no one sees me, so far as I know. For contrast, where my parents live out in the suburbs, neighbors are always creeping on each other and gossiping.

    Now, admittedly, there are many apartments that are tiny, or have shit sound proofing, or whatever. But, again, that is not an inherent property of apartments. Many houses have problems, too.

    People surrounding me watching and listening to everything i do

    Counterintuitively, denser living spaces make you less seen. Not that you're invisible, but that you don't register. If I went for a walk out in the suburbs, people would look and see me. They'd be like "Who's that weirdo walking?" or "Did you see that weird guy with the metal band on his t-shirt?" Someplace denser, I blend in with everyone else and don't get a second thought. Not even a first thought, most of the time.

  • What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford?

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  • I guarantee 99% of people would want a house on 2 acres thats a 30 minute drive to town than an apartment.

    This is an insane take.

    Many people like density.

    With an apartment you have no yard, probably no garage, cant make any changes to it, and you hear all your neighbors, and smell them if they smoke, and you dont own shit.

    Many apartments have yards.

    If you own that apartment, you can make changes to it. Maybe not some drastic changes, but I imagine the real limited there is money rather than architectural.

    Many apartments are sound proof. I almost never hear my neighbors.

    I don't know if my neighbors smoked. I've never smelled anything.

    Apartments actually benefit the wealthy class, which is why I find it funny lemmings love them so much.

    You seem to be confusing renting with apartments

  • What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford?

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  • Theyre inherently depressing.

    Lol what. How are apartments inherently depressing? Several of my friends have very nice apartments with natural light, grassy spaces, and close proximity to parks and essentials.

    Personally I find isolated single family homes a little depressing, but that's not an inherent property of them.

  • Meanwhile, in SW Florida [OC]

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  • They don't think. They feel. They're little better than toddlers. You wouldn't ask a child how their blanket is going to protect them from ghosts.

  • I Moved to Chicago Because I Hate Driving

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  • This checks out.

    Many people are really emotionally invested in cars and car-centric life. It's depressing. I think sometimes it's a defense mechanism- convince yourself the car world is good actually so you don't have to feel bad. Tell yourself that people who live in walkable areas are just privileged jerks out of touch with the world, and then it doesn't feel so bad.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • I feel like there are places where double click is the only way to do a thing, but you're probably largely correct. Apparently on the Mac you can do window->zoom to accomplish the same as double clicking on the window's top bar. Never knew that. Also don't think I would have naturally decided to double click on the window to change its size.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • Mouse over is a bad interaction, except for maybe showing tooltips. You can't do it on a phone. You're going to create mouse tunnels (where the user accidentally mouses out and closes the menu). And yet I see them all the time.

    Double click is kind of a bad interaction, too. A naive user looking at the device isn't going to Intuit "if I push this button twice rapidly something different will happen". There's no double right click or double dual click. Nor is there a triple click. It never should have become a standard interaction.

  • Average parking lot in my town

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  • You don't seem like the kind of person who can identify and sort through their emotions.

  • Average parking lot in my town

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  • Are you joking? It doesn't follow that all cowards have large cars. That's like textbook incorrect logic. Do you also think all rectangles are squares, because all squares are rectangles?

    Furthermore, not all discretion is cowardice.

    What's your emotional investment here, anyway? Do you drive a large car and park in the bike lane?

  • Is this common in the rpg space?

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  • Sometimes I go to a meetup that does one-shots. They're a pretty good group.

    Most of my friends either aren't interested, or aren't interested enough to actually show up. It's easier to make friends with people who want to play RPGs than get your friends to play. The worst outcome is when your friends are kind of people-pleasers, and they say yes to the game even though they don't really want to. Then they half-ass it or flake, and the friendship suffers.

  • Average parking lot in my town

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  • Do you think I drive a large car? How on earth did you come to that conclusion?

  • Average parking lot in my town

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  • I kind of want to make stickers that say like "I'm an asshole that parks in the bike lane" or "I drive a large car because I'm a coward" or whatever and discreetly slap them onto these abominations. Sadly my lawyer has recommended against this action.

  • what I think of the apps

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  • You're very angry and not worth the time to engage with further. I'm sorry for anyone in your life. Goodbye.

  • what I think of the apps

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  • What kind of place do you live?

    Why does one of the most populous cities experience not count?

    Why are you so emotionally invested in this?

    Do people in large cities not struggle? Why do you think one set of struggles trump another?

    Are you alright, dude?

  • what I think of the apps

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  • I've lived in the suburbs and traveled around the US a fair amount. I think sometimes about a time I was in suburban Illinois, and we were like "maybe we can order some food." Opened up google maps and it was a wasteland. I think there was like one KFC open in the area.

    My mind is more blown by why people defend living like that. Or actively choose it. It's a horrible kind of place to live.

    Ok, fine, sometimes there are tradeoffs. A guy I know bought a house out in the sticks someplace in the northeast. Has a yard for his kids. It's not too expensive. But it's a long-ass drive to get anywhere, and there's nothing to do. Not a trade I would make.

  • what I think of the apps

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  • I think you're just duckspeaking words like "privileged".