Posted on 04/26/2014 11:21:33 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
“private dog park” is a euphemism for a turd box. Enjoy the flies!
Olivia, lie down for a minute and get over it.
This is just another choice for people who want to live downtown. Should we make city high-rise apartments illegal so that those of you who like the suburbs can feel safe.
I've a feeling you haven't really thought this through.
And, BTW, I'm not living downtown. I prefer the country. The thought of living in a suburb depresses me. Maybe, I'm part of the conspiracy, too.
I will never again live in a hi-rise building. Tried it, hated it. The building was a formerly very nice building in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood, very quiet with friendly tenants. Then the Russian immigrant swine started moving in, taking over the building.
Russian or not, I hated people walking past my door down the hall, laughing or talking loudly, especially very late at night.
I hated getting into an elevator with someone smoking in it, as I have asthma and cigarette smoke is a trigger (the Russian swine taking over the Brooklyn building simply tore the "No Smoking" sign right off the elevator wall as a "There-I fixed it" gesture).
I hated the Russian couple above me having loud sex late at night, frequently falling on the floor (MY ceiling!) and waking me up. Well, I fixed them good. I called the cops on them. The guy was so mad, he came downstairs to pound on my door. I told him to go pound sand. I then played an audio tape of them screaming and carrying on like mating ferrets and told him through the door, "If you EVER EVER wake me up again, I will play this on loudspeakers for the neighborhood. Why should I keep this entertainment all to myself?" Boy, either they never had sex again or were very quiet about it. You gotta know how to train your Russian immigrant swine, the most hated people in Brooklyn! If you want to carry on like they did, go buy a house. Have some consideration for neighbors. But wait...Russians and consideration? Those two terms can never be in the same sentence, from what I've seen.
Like the young Russkie who would park his car right under my window at 3 in the morning, open his car door (so the uber-loud hiphop garbage music could wake me up) and then beep his car horn a few times (in case the music didn't do the job), shouting to his love up on a higher floor, "Marina, Marina, come down!" (in Russian, of course). Never occurred to him that at 3 a.m., going into the lobby and buzzing her apartment might be the thing to do vs. blasting the nabe with loud music and THEN honking your horn.
They are a big reason I moved to Queens and a 2-story co-op. No one walking with high heels on top of my head, no halls for miscreants to hang out in, no stairwells for Russian teens to have a 3-way in (yes, I passed such a threesome when coming down the stairs on the Sabbath, when I could not use the elevator).
I have beautiful gardens I planted out front, friendly neighbors, the library/post office/pet store and all other amenities only a few minutes' walk away. There are hardly any hi-rise buildings in my little semi-suburban village to block out the sky. There are TREES and GRASS in yards, not poured concrete.
Hi-rises? Feh!
The Russian invasion took place where I live too-—started in the early 80s.
They have all the senior housing,affordable housing,and Section 8 apartments because they came in as refugees,not immigrants. They were put on the top of the waiting lists.
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~There’s really nothing conservative about the suburbs. In fact, I’d suggest that what I call the “suburban mindset” has played a major role in the decline of the U.S. over the last 75 years.
Your first sentence says it all. Most people I know who have lived all of their lives in the suburbs put “comfort and safety” above all else — including freedom and liberty. People who live in urban rat-holes often behave like caged animals, while people who live in the “comfort house pets that have gotten used to having someone feed them. ~
Yeah, right..../s
It must be a primary reason why every communist government puts that much efforts to herd everyone into inner cities, then raze a family home suburbs to replace it with tracts of 9 to 30 story apartment buildings.
It is so cool, you don’t need a car as far as there is a light rail to take you to your factory and there is a groccery store on the first floor of your building, and a hair salon in a next building and a dentist in another.
It would be an officially bad day when someone in your government decides that your community haven’t behaved well, so there are empty shelves in a grocery on your first floor, heating, power and plumbing are turned off by the single switch for a thousands of people. You would like to get elsewhere to get some food and take shower but train doesn’t stop at your station anymore, and you have some 20,000 hungry, dirty and desperate people running around wild on a tiny block of a dozen highrise appartment buildings.
How would you like it?
Now that was a great post. Thanks for keeping FR interesting!
“Until some liberal federal judge decides t o poor are being discriminated against and orders 20% of the apartments be rented to low income housing recipients. Then you’ll have a nice ghetto in the middle of your city. See how many people want to pay 1500 a month to live next door to Teniqua and Rasheedy and their thumping rap music.”
Detached single family homes are no longer being built in my area, but apartment buildings/condos are still going up. They include the low-income housing requirements, and I also don’t understand how much someone will pay to live across the hall from some perpetual gibsmedat. Around here (northern NJ), the people who won’t work loot the proeprty of those who do while they are at work...
“Part of the plan to move folks out of the countryside and in to the cities.”
I think it is even more sinister than that; our rulers (from both parties) are determined to import as many people as possible into this country so that we can compete with Red China and India as CONSUMERS. They have over a billion people each, while we don’t have 1/3 of their populations; until we catch up the focus of business is on Asia. We aren’t enforcing any immigration laws because we want these people here; we entice them with freebies and a better overall environment than they have in Asia or Latin America.
You’re lucky; you were renting. In my neighborhood we have illegals renting houses or apartments in houses from absentee landlords, and while they turn our areas into their own versions of Caracas other people are trapped by their mortgages/can’t flee. Our government will do anything to prop up the housing market & education industry, and these unassimilated undocumented foreigners are part of that plan.
I lived in downtown Minneapolis for about a year. It had no grocery store Anywhere. In the summer they would have farmers market on Nicollet Ave on the weekends. Target built a store there in the downtown, I was sort of happy, but they didn’t make it a super Target. Downtown Minneapolis was nice for being a single man.
"Suburbs" as we know them aren't very common in older, established countries. They never played a major role in a nation's economy until the post-WW2 period in North America.
-— Now that the kids are grown, I yearn for a less complicated life. I find a condo in an urban high-rise pretty appealing -—
That’s the way my wife feels. But I like the outdoors. I work in downtown Boston, and that’s enough city for me. A Florida oceanside high rise? Maybe.
The SIL and his brother and their screaming toddler moved in and promptly made themselves an anathema of major proportions. The barely-employed brother took over the porch shared by the 4 apartments in that group, turning it into his outdoor office and smoking parlor. I had to listen to every detail of every "big deal" he was attempting to pull off as though he were sitting in my living room as a unwanted guest. I had to trip over the stacks of heavy cardboard boxes of literature for the shady medical insurance company he worked for, taking up the porch. He also smoked one cigarette after another, and the filth from his habit came right upstairs to me--and I have asthma. So there I was, choking and having no privacy, with him sitting spread-legged on the porch. Leaving his butts all over the lawn, my garden, and particularly to the side of the porch, where I could have fainted from their stench every time I leaned over the porch railing to toss some garbage into the can. And how wonderful to have to maneuver around him every time I wanted to enter or leave. Now we have the wifey: also a smoker, throwing her butts all over the lawn, and screaming at him and the kid at all hours. And the kid: scream, scream, scream.
Mr. Cop (who closely resembles "Mall Cop", pudgy wudgy little dear---must be all that good home cookin' from MOM...), thinking he was above rules and all that, never went through the co-op board to receive permission to sublet or allow his unit to be occupied by other than the owner. And co-op boards do NOT like being cut out of the circle. So SOMEONE dropped the dime on this digusting family of his who were illegally occupying his unit. And, NY just passed a law concerning co-ops only, which is the habitability law: you cannot do anything in your co-op which lessens the habitability of others' co-ops. Like, sending clouds of smoke upstairs into your neighbor's apartment, or having loud conversations right under your neighbor's window. Or throwing butts all over the lawn, creating an aesthetic liability and fire hazard.
Sadly, the bums were asked by the co-op to vacate the premises. Thank G-d. Because my investment in my co-op was totally negated by their presence, as well as the quality of life for the other neighbors. The bums managed to tick off a lot of people in their time here, and had to go move back in with MOM. Boy, she must have a full house of failed adults.
Glad that worked out; too bad you had to deal with it at the time. I bought a single-family home years ago because I intended to have a family and wanted kids to be able to be kids; it has its drawbacks, but in my area a prime concern would be vermin from other residents of a shared dwelling. One story I saw on the “Infested” show that occurred in Ottawa had a smiliar complaint to one I’ve heard in my town in NJ: Because of religious beliefs, Hindus won’t use pesticides. I never wanted to be at the mercy of such things; owning a home has plenty of drawbacks, but I couldn’t imagine the kids having it any other way (changing schools as we’d move from apartment to apartment, or anything along those lines).
Anyone interested in buying a home should get a good idea as to how many of their neighbors will be owners versus tenants; it makes all the difference in the world as far as how the residents view (and care for) a neighborhood.
In fact you can find numerous 1960s propaganda posters featuring demolition of tracts of “decadent” family homes, being replaced with highrise concrete ghettos.
Highrises might look ‘progressive’, but aren’t these “decadent” suburbs that makes a unique American lifestyles?
I am going for three weeks in June. Can’t wait!
Maybe so, but I have never seen a photo of a “suburb” in Moscow, Beijing, etc. from that era.
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