[breezybottom]

That's easy to say if you'd never had to live in a slum, but constant noise actually has negative health effects.

[buellerbueller]

Apparently all cities now are slums?

[breezybottom]

Us plebians don't live in expensive NYC penthouses.

[buellerbueller]

All urban living situations that are not NYC penthouses are slums?

[breezybottom]

Even in the nicest apartment I ever had, I still had to listen to my upstairs neighbor scream and beat up his wife.

[buellerbueller]

sounds like a sample size/bias problem to me. maybe you're just drawn to slums?

[breezybottom]

Ah the libertarian solution. "Just stop being poor"

[HDThoreaun]

As someone who has lived in NYC, yes. The vast majority of housing in NYC is slum quality at insane prices

[stephen_g]

That’s a false dilemma if I’ve ever seen one. As if those are the only options - that’s just silly defeatism and reductionism!