| >"Stop liking what I don't like," That isn't the argument though. The argument is that people who don't want what you like are forced to do it. >Listen, some people want a short commute. This is like the "would you like to help the disabled" line that people selling things on the street say. >Hell, it's even good for family, which the author seems hung up on. You know what you're not doing while driving home from work for forty five minutes? I would accept an arbitrarily short commute to work. If there were reasonably priced dwellings in the building I work at, I would live there. More time to play with my kid, cook dinner, or whatever else. I had to live below a family with 3 kids for a year. There was constant running on my ceiling. "thump thump thump" all day and night. Apartments are not really designed for kids. In fact, they aren't really designed for anybody, which is why everybody buys houses where it is possible. I don't feel like I have any privacy here because there are always people very close to me. Most people just shut all their windows and pull the blinds down. Living in a windowless box is not ideal. >Well, is it sinister to live near work, or isn't it? I think he is complaining about the fact that you have to move away from where you grew up and that the options available for housing are basically a dorm room. |