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AeuiGame t1_j8nc2op wrote

Reply to comment by DumbshitOnTheRight in Most towns are going along with the state’s new multifamily housing law. Not Middleborough. by TouchDownBurrito

"Town character" is a non argument. "We cannot build something here because something like that has not been built here."

Your original town character was goddamn trees you go far back enough. Its just a nonstarter that can be dismissed out of hand.

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3720-To-One t1_j8nk57t wrote

But don’t you see?

In the mind of a NIMBY, once they purchase property, only then does the town magically become frozen in time, and should never have to ever change.

Imagine if the “neighborhood character” of forests and corn fields had been preserved. Most NIMBY suburbs wouldn’t exist.

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Bald_Sasquach t1_j8pc6g9 wrote

Last summer I was driving thought Charlestown and watched a guy consoling his girlfriend who was screaming and crying watching a triple decker being demolished. She screamed "THIS IS SO FUCKED UP I GREW UP HERE!!! THAT BUILDING WAS ALWAYS THERE! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

There is a new triple decker there now that looks almost exactly the same lmao

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Cameron_james t1_j8o8xst wrote

> Your original town character

The original town character was probably a wetu before it had a two level house.

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