BF2S Forums Home Ownership Thread

uziq wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

He travelled to Peru to go for a walk.

he travelled to peru presumably to explore the ruins of an ancient civilisation.

tourism as an industry ruins lots of things and packages things so that genuine cultural ‘encounters’ are nigh-on impossible - granted.

but there’s nothing wrong with wanting to explore the world we’re all born into with its rich and varied treasures.

your priggishness and incuriosity about this sort of thing just makes you seem provincial and a bore, frankly.

it’s okay for you to fly repeatedly to and fro in the great human endeavour of engineering widgets or whatever the fuck but hiking in the andes is somehow contemptible? lol get a grip you nerd.

Pretty sure these days about 99% of it is for selfie opportunities, pulling faces and poses as monks look on disdainfully.

Record 274 climbers scale Everest via Nepal in one day
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g07vng8z1o

Pure ego.

Let's try to focus. We need more high rises.

Just dot the landscape with them. Go up up and up.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Let's try to focus. We need more high rises.

Just dot the landscape with them. Go up up and up.

have you been to athens? place is seriously run down. look at istanbul if you want to see a city that has managed to modernise somewhat while retaining its ancient old world flavour. most of athens thesedays is a dump and a ghetto - a little bit of regeneration, not to mention plate-glass high-rise modernity, would seriously improve the place.

perhaps they're even trying to recreate an ancient wonder of the world? the lighthouse at pharos, for instance?



it's not as if glorious rome itself was much to talk about for most of its modern history. place was also likewise a notable dump. these ultimately are not rich countries and barely even pivoted much to the fully industrialised modern era. only in the north of italy do you find something like a first-world advanced economy. parts of southern europe and the central/eastern med are still effectively feudal.

Last edited by uziq (2026-05-26 01:38:16)

aren't you living in the suburbs right now? what about your dentist office? i imagined that place as quite a smaller building than a residential tower.

these strip malls are abandoned because their owners wanted eye-popping rent per square foot, and the execs in charge operate on maximum value extraction (lol: "we need a guy who'll run the country like a business!"). they're rundown because the property managers put in charge of upkeep are tasked with spending bottom dollar and wringing every concession possible out of the contractors until nobody wants to work for them. pincer attack. there's more to it than that of course, but these are factors.

too bad for the communities that pop up around a grocery store when the execs, blaming a bum who stole a toothbrush, decide to close the only food outlet within miles.

go ahead and put a high rise there, but if the rent for an apartment is still too high, people are still going to sleep on the sidewalk in front of the building. and people will still dream of owning an actual house on land they also own, all paid off, so they can stop throwing money into the black hole of rent and usury.

Build enough towers and older stock housing prices will go down or stabilize.

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“The simplest explanation is supply. Jersey City was one of the busiest apartment-construction markets in the entire New York metro region, adding thousands of new units as developers chased the post-pandemic demand surge,” Chen said.

“When all that inventory came online at once, landlords had to compete on price to fill the units, which pulled rents down from their 2024 peak. The building boom is why renters are getting a break now,” Chen said.

You seem to think I am defending housing developers. I am not. Ideally the government builds the towers on empty land and put in some rent control.

Where I defend the developers is in regard to environmentalist who want animal shelters and Boomers who want to stop development while not paying any property taxes.

"Our seniors should not pay property taxes," says Rep. Nancy Mace (R–S.C.).