[HEmanZ]

Have you not met Americans? The very first thing 95% of Americans will say if you propose public transport closer to their house is that you are bringing crime. Also if the transit comes close then someone might build condos or apartments near it! Oh the horror!

I had a lady parade around my neighborhood handing out fliers saying that extending the bus stop to our neighborhood was going to bring rapists and pedophiles into the neighborhood. I thought she was an odd one out and insane so I made a joke about it at a neighborhood event a few weeks later.

Turns out, I was the odd one out…

[anovikov]

Sounds like, solution is "company towns" where everything is built by giant mega-corporation, completely greenfield, and nothing is sold - just rented out.

[frollogaston]

Plenty of those exist in the US too, with public transit. The people complaining about NIMBYs can live there, but they don't. They're more popular among younger people without kids.

[anovikov]

So perhaps there is no problem there? People can live in places like that and build wealth by investing it stocks (it beats real estate anyway).

[frollogaston]

I agree, home ownership is overrated as an investment. It's not bad but not necessary.