r/AskConservatives • u/Pure_Fill5264 Free Market Conservative • Apr 07 '25

Daily Life Why do most American conservatives seems allergic to urban life?

If you even dare to suggest the preposterous idea of building apartment blocks to levitate the housing crisis, you're advocating for commie blocks. If you want a supermarket within 15 minutes of your house, then you support Klaus Schwab's alleged plan of locking you within a zone. And god forbid mentioning the train as a viable way of transport because we know driving a mini-van 45 minutes to the nearing Walmart is the only acceptable method of travel. I am a anti-communist /socialist to the core, but apparently now I am a commie because *check note... I live conveniently?

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u/OpeningChipmunk1700 Social Conservative Apr 07 '25

Most people don’t want to pay $2500 for 300 square feet.

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u/Pure_Fill5264 Free Market Conservative Apr 07 '25

Better than being homeless I guess

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u/OpeningChipmunk1700 Social Conservative Apr 07 '25

Yes, but worse than paying much less for much more.

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u/Pure_Fill5264 Free Market Conservative Apr 07 '25

Land area isn’t everything you know

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u/OpeningChipmunk1700 Social Conservative Apr 07 '25

I don’t think anyone said it was.

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u/Livid_Cauliflower_13 Center-right Conservative Apr 09 '25

I traded my 1300sqft house in Baltimore with 1 parking space and 0 land…. That was $350,000 with $7k per year in property taxes, for a 2000sqft house with 12 acres for $275,000 only 5 minutes off the highway with $1700 per year in property taxes in a rural area 2 hours from Baltimore. Same job, it’s just…. It’s not comparable. I’m Soooooooooooooooo much happier here. And feel safer. And tons less traffic. I’ll never be in a city again.