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Myriad, here is my reply to your verbose reply to my post.
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SF is earthquake prone. They will not allow the 40+ story high rises that exist in Asia.
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Rent control in SF is not going away. Those who are lucky enough to have it don’t care about mobility.
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Newcomers must take the available housing that is on offer and there will always be people moving, thereby creating vacant living units. We don’t owe them anything else.
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Why do you think Americans should live as dense as Asians do in the cities you mentioned above? I don’t need any “perspective.”
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Witness Chinese workers wearing masks all or part of every workday they spend in the city … and every day if they live there.
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The land mass of the US is only 1% larger than that of China’s yet they have 373 people per square mile and we have 90.6 people per square mile.
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BG, my reply is long b/c my original post was 14 lines, yours was 54. 2nd post 35 lines, yours was 81. This one is 27 (technically 25)
SF Earthquake prone – You mean like Tokyo, where they are building 50+ story high rises?
Economic Mobility – well rent control creates a psychological reason to stay put. But it might not be in the renter’s best interest if there is a better job or career.
Newcomers & oweing stuff – Who said anything about that? If you think there will be 0 new development in SF or any other city, you’re sorely mistaken.
Americans & dense cities – Not surprised by your response – I’m not advocating it – it’s happening in many places in the US.
Chinese workers & masks – Density is not the cause of the bad pollution. Bad environment policy for factories, power, and cars is. Mass transit and dense living actually improves environmental efficiency (imagine if everyone uses energy like the US).
China & geography – If you did some research, China has a fraction of the arable land compared to the US, that’s why everyone is concentrated in a few areas. Yes, there’s been lots of bad policies in the past 200 years. But China has caught up 50 years in the last 10 (now they are in the 1960’s/1970’s compared to the US. They’ve also brought 400M people out of poverty in 25 years. There’s actually a lot of places in China that are not developed and a lot less polluted (most of that is away from the major cities). Also, what about other countries like S.Korea or Japan? You only singled out China.
You’re comparing a bunch of islands with a country with 1.2B people?
Not advocating that we turn the US into Asia – just that we have smart planned growth. Your plan is to do nothing thinking it’s all going to be good.
