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by malandrew
1881 days ago
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> ugly, low standard buildings ugly is subjective so I won't touch on that. The low standard one is reasonable as that is what keeps costs low. The alternative is high standard and high cost. You can't really get high standards for low costs. If the government dictates that all housing needs to be high standard, the collateral damage to that policy is that you can only build housing that prices people out of the market. |
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I agree but here they're also expensive, which, in my view, is a symptom of the corruption and lack of a free market.
> ugly is subjective so I won't touch on that.
Again I agree, but if you're into industrial estates with lots of concrete and overhead wires galore, then Japan is the place for you. I'm sure someone likes it, maybe the brutalists who made the ugliest parts of my country (the UK) after the war.