Is the alternative that we all rent/buy (?) apartments? That sounds awful to me. I've lived in apartments my entire life and it is not pleasant due to the large amount of people that absolutely fucking suck. I would love to put some space between myself and these assholes. Ideally, I'd like to not really have neighbors at all after my lifetime of experiences.
While there are other options which have been mentioned to death in the comments below. I'd also like to point out that this could be less of an issue if Apartments were not built like absolute trash shit garbage.
There is no reason you could not build an apartment by taking a standard single family home that you would find in a more rural like area and the simply stacking another one on top of it and continuing that until you no longer get approval to go higher.
Apartments are small, with crappy layouts, and generally cheap materials that makes it difficult to sound isolate. We don't have to make them like that we could just make an actual fucking house with proper materials and then just put another fucking house on top of it and another fucking house on top of that one and so on
Yeah my grandmother got a condo in a large condo development when she moved to the area and its incredible how I never hear any neighbors at all, meanwhile every apartment I've been in you can hear and sometimes smell the neighbors if they so much as have a conversation or try to cook. It all comes down to the quality of construction
Whenever people say this, my first response is: you should support building mixed use/mixed density.
You would have an easier time affording a single family home if there were a couple of duplexes, quad plexes, and low rise apartments around, with some small shops in the ground level.
Fewer people competing for the same single family homes and close access to bodegas and bistros. Easier time finding babysitters and dog walkers too.
We don't all have to love like Manhattan. Most of the nicest neighborhood in America are mixed density.
I used to think apartments sucked until I lived in a concrete and brick unit. It was amazing how quiet they were. The concrete walls blocked out all noise of my neighbors and traffic. I made some good friends in the units next to mine and those were honestly 2 of the best years of my life. I miss living like that
That sounds like a dream. Just the other night, the chick across the hall kicked her dude out after they argued in the hall for three hours. I had to listen to him stomp back and forth until 4am and knock everytime to be let back in a he collected his shit. Fucking trashy motherfuckers.
That's just not realistic in major metro areas anymore. We need to do more to foster a sense of community in buildings because we can't build enough housing any other way.
I've lived in NYC for ~15 years, in apartments, and I almost never hear neighbors. Nor have any of my friends complained about loud neighbors often. Problems with neighbors and noise is not an inherent property of apartments.
Is the alternative that we all rent/buy (?) apartments?
No --- duplexes/triplexes/etc. exist. And single-family housing does exist in mixed zoning areas. An SFH next to a duplex next to an apartment building is common in my city. However, in this case, the "back yard" is probably enough for a small garden and a bbq, but not a large lawn...which is fine, because there are parks in walking distance.
Ideally, I'd like to not really have neighbors at all after my lifetime of experiences.
Then city and suburbs aren't really for you, and it sounds like something very rural would suit you, and those around you, better.
I like how the assumption at the end is that I'm somehow an issue for those around me. I never stated that I, in turn, cause problems for the assholes around me. One thing I know about assholes is that they only escalate, so it is best to disengage if possible. But i suppose you're right; people who are obnoxiously loud at all hours, run/stomp around, yell/scream at each other, fight, shoot, allow their animals to urinate/deficate anywhere, urinate/deficate anywhere themselves, have loud ass animals, park vehicles just anywhere, have loud ass vehicles, etc. are probably saints, and I'm just a menace to society.
Then you agree that zoning should not force people to only live in one kind of home.
I agree that zoning, while necessary, has been used improperly in some cases. Obviously, you don't want a waste site near homes, hospitals, etc. On the other hand, there's no reason you can't have some kind of restaurant, grocery store, apartments, etc. in a neighborhood. In fact, that would be preferential, as it would reduce driving needs.
"I would be all for this, but you people all suck."
Exactly! Lol
The issue is that everyone in the long chain of apartment construction tries to cut corner to pocket more money.
So you get these cheap cardboard new apartment where you hear everything happening in the building.
It doesn't have to be like that. But the mentalities need to change, and the fuckfaces contractors need to be held accountable for their shitty work.
I continues to astound he what little it takes to become "famous"
Especially on the most lowbrow humour possibility
Yeah this is not real tho
For some reason she gets quoted with opinions that she never even expressed.
People are using her to make their opinions popular. She's, dare I say, a victim in this situation.
I think its more down to how she seized on her moment of fame to build a brand and try to scratch a better living for herself
I suppose when guerilla glue girl can do it so can she
Especially on the most lowbrow humour possibility
thats how you get famous , appeal to lowest common denominator
Being an attractive white woman helps a lot.
I continues to astound he what little it takes to become “famous”
She got picked up by an agency that went full tilt on promotion. There are an enormous number of man hours being expended to get you to care about what this person has to say. No small feat, when you consider how many people feel the urge to post and repost this shit.
I'm convinced this is all marketing done by her and her team.
It's only through memes like this so I remember she exists.
The last time this came up, several people pointed out that the source mistook a parody article for genuine reporting.
This is along the same lines as those "John Cena forgot to save between the cutscene and the boss fight" headlines.You're right
You gotta gimme dat WALK TUAH metro station and get on that train. Because even if you own a car, increasing your usage of public transit when available is a great way to save money on gas, see your city from a new perspective, and reduce traffic congestion for commuters whose only option is driving.
I still don't know what she is famous for. Should I care about this?
She recently started a podcast called "TALK TUAH" which is a pun of her "catchphrase" "HAWK TUAH" (the sound of spitting). It's been a meme to make up topics she talks about.
She's basically manufactured at this point
Who?
Source?edit: Anyone have a source of her saying this?
No, its a meme format, the whole tuah thing is ridiculous and completely unserious, so you attribute to her serious and heavy topics
Poor health? My air is certainly cleaner than downtown NYC.
Now if major cities banned cars we'd be getting somewhere.
Air quality can certainly be impacted by density, but neighbourhoods that aren't car dependent promote exercise by giving people the ability to lak or bike wehn going out instead of driving (which can also help the overall air quality).
Isn't it just a joke? I saw a similar one last week about quantum mechanics I think, she never said anything like this afaik
I think this could be stemming from another creator's jokes.
Her name is "CitiesbyDiana". I believe she started doing Cities Skylines and Truck Simulator content but that transformed over time into talking about urbanism in real life. She makes short-form videos that are hyper-edited "brainrot" and usually have AI voices. Either celebrities like Trump and Biden or OC characters like "Lane Man"- a prodigy of Robert Moses who advocates for paving the entire world with highways.
She's also moved to to other things. If you've seen memes about food or pharmaceutical grade glycine from Dongua Jjnglong, it originated with her ironically simping for the company as a joke.
I've noticed she's started to use AI to manipulate videos from podcasts, including Talk Tuah. I haven't seen this particular one video, but this seems right in line with the kind of content she creates.
Glad to see another Diana enjoyer. Her videos are the perfect satire of brainrot. It's so niche and I haven't found anyone else who enjoys it. Even my wife who is honestly as chronically online as me and used to watch all manner of stupid montage parodies and stuff back in the day doesn't enjoy her content.
https://www.tiktok.com/@citiesbydiana/video/7419729268629982507
What’s unhealthier is living in a cramped apartment space with noise and smell pollution.
Theres nothing wrong with car-centric if done right, not everywhere needs to be a dense urban environment.
Lets tax the wealthy appropriately before suggesting we need to suck taxes out of regular fucks by packing them like sardines.
People need to stop believing that their preferred way of living is optimal or necessarily better. Sometimes I doubt anyone wants to live this way, and maybe it’s just a ploy by landlords to get more tenants per unit of architecture.
Lastly, if you want to live in a “community” or “commune”, then go ahead. If someone else prefers isolated spaces and they’re paying taxes on what they have, that’s okay too.
This is sub is not solar punk, it’s more tired communist propaganda.
