[quote=bearishgurl][quote=FlyerInHi]Bg, even with stagnant or decreasing population we need to build. In Japan, they still build despite population getting old.
In with the new, out with the old. That’s the way it is.
Quality is life is up. That’s why people still come here and house values are up. The market does not lie.[/quote]
brian, I am ALL FOR “In with the new, OUT with the old.” That’s considered “infill building.”
What I am fundamentally against is MORE SPRAWL created in outer lizardia.
I don’t think SD County’s population increase (if any) is actually due to Americans from other CA counties and other states moving here.
It is likely from foreign in-migration and births over deaths coming mostly from our existing immigrant families. Most of those families (esp Asians, who lived their lives in their home countries in MUCH MORE crowded conditions than we have) rate SD as having a good quality of life today because it IS good …. to them. SD County doesn’t look nearly as good to the well-established US citizen (in and out of state) living in their paid-for homes within their own (roomy and bucolic) settings in far more well-planned counties than San Diego.[/quote]
BG, existing residents have been opposed to new growth and building for many, many decades. Those who’ve enjoyed open space and the use of land that wasn’t theirs (as most of us did in our youth) feel encroached upon by new people who take our open spaces and corn fields, orange groves, etc. and turn them into rows and rows of homes crowded onto ever-smaller lots, then fill our roads and freeways with too many cars, causing us to spend more and more time stuck in traffic…
I know people who are third-generation Californians (or more), and they didn’t think that the BG’s of the world were an improvement to their city/state, either. I’m sure the Native Americans who lived here before us also felt as though things were better before the Europeans got here.
It’s a bit silly to think that there should be no more housing growth just because you want the value of your house to go up. For as long as more and more people want to live here, we will need more housing. We are nowhere near the point where we are “running out of land.” A mere 15-30 minute drive will prove that we are not out of land. And if they close some military bases, as they’ve done in the past, we could have a LOT of extra land for development.
Not saying this is what I want, either, but we have to be honest about the facts. We have not run out of land, and nobody is obligated to inconvenience millions of other people just because some people want the value of their houses to keep going up.
