• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    I don’t really follow I’m sorry.

    Are you suggesting, on the basis of the opinion of one Russian kid who expressed a preference for living where he grew up, that I’m mistaken regarding my own preferences?

    Sorry mate that’s a little bit nutty.

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      16 hours ago

      Well, it’s more like this: have you ever lived in a suburb and a commie block? I haven’t, but he did, and he explained why he felt that way. I’m not claiming it’s scientific or anything

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        8 hours ago

        I’ve lived in all sorts of places in a bunch of different countries, both apartment style living and suburban.

        You don’t have to take my word for it though. 70% of Australians live in suburbia. Do you honestly think they’re mistaken regarding their own lifestyle preferences ?

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          6 hours ago

          70% of Australians live in suburbia. Do you honestly think they’re mistaken regarding their own lifestyle preferences ?

          Billions of flies love shit. Just saying. 😁

          But more seriously: if people have been conditioned from early years to desire suburban living, this is what they will desire. I am not judging if it is right or wrong.

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            2 hours ago

            Billions of flies love shit.

            This illustrates my point really. Shit matches the nutritional requirements of flies and provides a perfect incubator and food source for their larvae. It’s fine that you personally do not love shit, but it’s arrogance to suggest that flies must have been conditioned to love shit just because you personally do not.

            I disagree that conditioning influences peoples choice of lifestyle. There’s no evidence of that, it’s just supposition. I’ll stand by my original point which is simply that people like living in suburbia because it’s a balance of space, convenience, and cost. When you hear the sound of hooves, think horses, not zebras.

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          7 hours ago

          I don’t think anyone is mistaken in living where they choose, the mistake is in zoning codes forcing the market to only build one choice, one solution to housing.