[jethro_tell]

LOL, we've had that offer; we turned it down. We could have bought two or three times the house we have now with cash on hand and kept our same jobs with the companies we work for now.

That wouldn't be what we want in life. So we have a little house in a big city with a little garden and the ability to bike with our kids anywhere that's worth going. There are music venues, and museums, and restaurants, and lakes, and ocean, and beaches. With a weekend drive there are mountains and forests. Week nights can get you an $8 dollar show with a good band just around the corner and most nights there is a choice of 6-8 bands within a mile.

Most of the people I know and live around could live in cheaper places as well, either apartments, or cities, but they live here because that's where they want to live.

[non-entity]

> There are music venues

I just moved from what was effectively a state capital/ college town to a largish town without much going on and man having a music venue that plays various local and touring underground artists from all sorts of genres is something I miss. I'm closer to two cities that get large headliner concerts now, but it's still to rare someone I enjoy enough to take the trip is coming.

[mcguire]

"So we have a little house in a big city with a little garden..."

Does that make you one of the NIMBYs?

[jethro_tell]

Nope, I have a social contract with the people around me that I can use that piece of land for a house, but I also don't try to regulate what anyone else can do with their land.

I'd like to see everything in the city rezoned from single family to multifamily with the option for high density. I write/ speak up at every zoning city council meeting in favor of density, I back candidates that support dense zoning, I've supported city lots on my block being turned into low income, subsidized housing instead of a park. My neighborhood specifically is the one in my city with the highest density growth since I've moved here with the population tripping in the last couple years and outpacing the growth of the city by 1/2. I'd like to see more done to continue that trend.

I didn't buy a little house with a garden because I needed a little house with a garden, I bought it because that's what I could afford in the neighborhood that I wanted to live in. I'd have been just has happy in a townhome, or in a multi-family condo, but that wasn't available when we were looking for a place to live.

There's some things that are really fucked up with the way our city's have grown so fast. But I hope that we can make them places for all, to enjoy the same things that I've been privileged enough to enjoy.