[greeneggs]

I'm not sure what is incoherent about the anti-growth mentality. You seem to be trying to make a rhetorical point instead of an argument.

There really are costs to current residents to allowing unfettered growth. Increased traffic, for example, materially reduces people's quality of life.

People vote for their own self interests, and calling someone "incoherent" simply because they were born in Boulder and love their home is not a productive argument.

[morgante]

Sorry, I should have been clearer that it's not all anti-growth advocates who are incoherent.

If you were born somewhere and are attached to the way of life you've known since you were born, it's certainly an argument. I don't agree with it, but it's not incoherent.

I'm referring to the people (particularly in SF) who moved there a decade or more ago yet are virulently opposed to "tech workers" doing the same thing.

And yes, I understand voting for self-interests. What's irritating is when people try to frame their self-interests as a moral crusade, as though tech immigration is somehow inherently evil.

[uola]

It's not hard to imagine that grntrification only have net good effects up to a point for many people.