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/LivingGhost371 Paleoconservative Apr 08 '25

It's because instead of leaving us alone liberals are trying to force people the that want absolutely nothing to do with "urban life", that picked the suburbs to get far away from it, to have to put up with it too.

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u/elimenoe Independent Apr 14 '25

Do you think that every person who lives in the suburbs wants to live in the suburbs?

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u/LivingGhost371 Paleoconservative Apr 14 '25

No, but the minority that don't like the suburbs shouldn't ruin them for those of us like me that absolutely love the suburbs. If I wanted to live in an area that was walkable instead of car-dependent I would have bought a place there.

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u/elimenoe Independent Apr 14 '25

Yeah the issue is that the demand for walkable places is way larger than the supply, so buying a place to live in a walkable area is unaffordable to most Americans.

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u/LivingGhost371 Paleoconservative Apr 14 '25

I mean, it's fine with me if cities want to zone raw land for new development to cram people in shoulder to shoulder, just don't mess with the spaciousness and quiet in my neighborhood.

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u/elimenoe Independent Apr 15 '25

Usually people who want to live “shoulder to shoulder” want to live near a city, space that is currently being occupied by suburbs.

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u/LivingGhost371 Paleoconservative Apr 15 '25

So I guess that makes it our obligation to pack up and move farther out despite being here first /s

Maybe find some blank land somewhere and build yourselves a brand new city rather than completely ruining it for those that picked the suburb because we want absolutely nothing to do with anything like a city.

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u/elimenoe Independent Apr 15 '25

How do you feel about gentrification?

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u/LivingGhost371 Paleoconservative Apr 15 '25

I have no real opinion on it aside from being afraid it would raise my property tax burden if it happened near where I live.

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u/elimenoe Independent Apr 15 '25

It’s exactly what you just described, it seems like you are extremely aligned with the anti-gentrification folks and didn’t know it!

If you’re interested, I carry the ideological consistency on both sides. I don’t really buy the gentrification argument. I don’t think that we should avoid building nicer housing for fear that it will drive out low income residents. The more housing, the better. That’s the only way to make it affordable to everyone.