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Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

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Textbook NIMBYism. Just because you bought a place does not entitle you to having the surrounding vicinity stay in stasis until you leave.

This is why nations as a whole are being done away with by the market controllers who have the capital.

You live here but you don’t own your neighbors homes and you have no right to tell them what they can do with them. Who cares what “reason” you bought your home for, that is literally no one else’s problem but yours. You’re no different from the HOA tyrants who scream at their neighbors for painting their house the wrong color.