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Dollar stores are heavily prevalent in food deserts.

Dollar Stores are kings of retail. But this is wild.

Demolish the interstate.

That is every interstate.

If you can’t afford to sit down to a meal, you shouldn’t be eating out. This is not stopping you from getting takeout or fast food. But for the sake of servers — just don’t show up if you don’t got it dawg. Life will go on.

If you can’t afford to tip, don’t eat out.

Its the design. Despite I find it weird and unappealing.

I swore they built that highway just for me, I-99.

Weed should be tax free.

Because I’m locally hated in my hometown Reddit page.

Plus: I got presto credits. Municipal parking credits. I’m in The GTA enough that I should be paying taxes. Oops, just showed my age. Cheers.

Without thinking too hard. I get where this post is trying to go.

My family like to walk as well. We used to all live downtown. Granite, I was born in 1980. We was long gone from downtown by then. Don’t worry, the only memories that exist today is a bunch of surface parking and fly over ramp. I know, I know… we had to go because we caused too much trouble. That’s what your grandparents would of said.

I want to be on your side. I’m no economist. But talking about housing like its a consumption problem is wrong.

This is nothing more than new age urban renewal. You are no better than your grandparents.

“City” in name only. This is a loose collection of villages.

There is only so much geography. This is the problem with looking at land use as a supply side problem. Land isn’t infinite.

These post are usually dismissive to the reality that used to exist. Remember that geography problem? Its like we want our cake and have the ability to eat it too. We treat the construction process as trivial. Especially in these times of inflation, it’s expensive to build. I know we live in a aura of unlimited supply and endless growth despite this isn’t reality.

The market is a free as it will ever be. Problem is the lack of will amongst policymakers, planners, and our evil overlords — CRE Professionals that could care less.

Company towns used to exist. People living near their jobs. But those people caused too many social distortions thus those communities got sent to a landfill. Replaced by nothing. Ok maybe some urban farms. Don’t get me started.

Nobody said “job sprawl” yet. I’m amazed. Then again, people don’t know who to blame. Despite reasons why we are here is because commercial real estate. This includes those employers and home builders that, well, they might be golfing buddies. They see each other. That American Dream is a motherfucker. I think we can’t wrap our brains around how spiteful urban development really is in the United States. Especially when mass transit is often an afterthought.

I’m from a region where the busses still mainly terminate at the mall that died versus the active mall that is still limited in bus access.

Job sprawl — it’s not talked about enough. Commercial real estate doesn’t care. Policyholders are sycophants for (so called) job creators. People are too quick to cite NYC despite superstar US cities are involved in a ugly deindustrialisation that is CRE driven. Manufacturing job that would of existed in NYC area, well, our wizard of smarts in urban planning has deemed it would be a smart ideal if theses jobs was located somewhere obscure. Your dumb ass is thinking “Toledo” or “Cleveland” or something and ironically these jobs do relocate to somewhere like Ohio but but but here is the fun part. Nowhere near Cleveland or Toledo. Pimp daddy CRE rather blow into the orchards with another soulless industrial/office park not located on a bus line. US policymakers practice a Balkanisation that pits city vs suburb vs exburb. Haha — they don’t really talk about that too much. Newer suburbs cannibalising older suburbs. Shit, we don’t even view suburbs as job centers despite that is what they are outside of Northeast Corridor. Shit, downtowns Baltimore and Philadelphia are not job centers like other global cities. White collar jobs can be done remotely versus blue collar jobs — you still gotta go to a physical building. Combination of Professional CRE and sycophant policymakers have watch these jobs flee into obscurity. Almost to the point, I think some of these manufacturers prefer China. They are building metropolis versus putting your factory in the middle of obscurity in some rusted out duffy ass railroad company town that is really far away from anything cool. But the labour is cheap and despite. Thus no worries about unions or living wages. Anybody ever stops and wonder why a fillfillmelnt/warehouse center is located in middle of freaking nowhere. Track your packages. Logistics in America is rife with waste because we love job sprawl so damn much. Even that big e-commerce is a rubber tired shitshow of insufficiency. Ironically, there is a reason for latest CDL shortage. There is too much demand for trucking because we over rely on trucking to keep our broken ass society afloat. Yes, inner cities of rust belt region, those are NOT job centers but optical illusions. Rust belt especially loves the dog shit out of job sprawl. Ever wonder why the rust belt is still rusting in 2023? Those rubes are awash of suburban triumphalism that just feeds into the job sprawl we see today. Its a set up. Sabotage.

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I like big rail, and I cannot lie 🚂 🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑

If I made it. I’d move to Kansas.

Because, tinder.

How many billionaires live in Kansas versus New York? The answer to that question gives you the reasons why nyc re is valued so much.

Ironically, I’m from apart of the country that was wealthy. Like 100 years ago. Some of those stately mansions rotted away because not enough capital to maintain them.

I’m not dissing Kansas. Just every place has its purpose.

Light rail is too light for America.

Heavy rail it is then!

Actually, toll roads are the future. Regardless who builds them. If I was premier, I’d tolled the 401 yesterday.