[supermw]

What is the point of these opinion pieces? Why should we care about what someone at New York Times says over any other person? These kind of articles must be made simply to drive traffic and stimulate rage. It will be interpreted as just another coastal elite telling Americans they should aspire to live and die in a cold steel and concrete box partitioned out in a shared building with neighbors on all sides pestering them and a condo HOA breathing down their backs. I guess it worked.

[matt4077]

Well, as you say, it's an opinion piece. It's raison d'être is to allow people to make informed decisions. To that purpose, it is helpful for a society to have reasoned analyses that go beyond the low-value collection of stereotypes and bad-faith of sentences like:

> just another coastal elite telling Americans they should aspire to live and die in a cold steel and concrete box partitioned out in a shared building with neighbors on all sides pestering them

[benj111]

As opposed to The National Association of Home Builders giving us their opinion on what we should live in?

Isn't it reasonable to have a conversation about what kind of houses we want to live in, we want builders to build, we want government to encourage?

[gowld]

You don't need to read the NYT if you don't want to. They publish things that people seem to enjoy reading.

Concrete is warmer than wood, it's a much better insulator.