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I like some of the ideas surrounding modular built with shipping containers. http://www.buzzfeed.com/kristinchiric ... -from-shipping-containers
Posted on: 2014/6/26 19:16
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Back on topic away from the digression..
If the market demands smaller, cheaper rentals, and they are being built, why the crying? This is a free market solution, right?
Posted on: 2014/6/26 19:14
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Why repeatedly rebut BS based on bigotry?
Posted on: 2014/6/26 19:06
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You are under the mistaken belief that the Senate matters.
Aside from that, in the long game, the Republican Party is going to self destruct. But that's off topic.. ain't it?
Posted on: 2014/6/26 18:29
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Re: As American Cities Grow, New Urbanism Must Be Inclusive
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I didn't say that, did I? Besides, why would middle income residents increase any of those crimes?
Posted on: 2014/6/26 18:20
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Most people who do that are not residents of the area they do it in. Carjackers and robbers tend to TRAVEL to their victims. Less witnesses who know them and less time near the crime scene.
As for a lot of the rest.. can't be helped outside of gated communities that require driving to get to. And are even duller to live in.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 18:12
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Not even close.. amused.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 18:10
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Objectivist trash.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 18:00
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For a guy who don't care, why u mad, bra? THAT's trolling.. just so u know.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 17:39
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Meh.. in the end, being on the wrong side of history will make your tears all the sweeter. The world moves forward, despite the whining and crying of reactionary conservatives.
I am going to enjoy seeing the whining when Clinton wind two four years terms. You should also not take the lord's name in vain. 
Posted on: 2014/6/26 17:35
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A neighborhood is not an autonomous individual. Change should be based on policy grounds, not the desires of a few wealthy people trying hard to keep it fully exclusive.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 17:28
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People born to $$$$ have a tendency to being just shitty, if not worse. Also, sociopaths tend to make $$$$ as well.
There is no real link between money and character.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 17:26
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I brought up my dissatisfaction with the ones who propose to keep it exclusionary to the evident detriment of the neighborhood itself, which is becoming more and more dull over time.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 17:16
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They are still not a net tax benefit as you claim, so your argument is false.
Aside from that, get it through your head. You income does not make you "better". There are plenty of shitty, self-involved, criminal and anti-social people making high incomes. And in pretty much the same proportion as the lower income levels. Plenty of middle income and poor people dress fine, groom themselves, behave well and take care of their living space. Poor habits come more from segregation and not having a stake in a community. There are plenty of shitty upper income transient tenants as well.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 16:27
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Being against making an entire area of a city a monoculture is not being against older people. Downtown is dynamic because of a both upper income, and older, people AND a wide variety of other folks as well.
If it shifts to all of the former, it'll be a dull area, like northern Hoboken. And I would be careful about trying to bring arguments from other posts across. You're opening up being called a bigot in every single thread you post in. I( consider it poor form to do so, but I have no problem with responding in kind.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 16:24
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Hating bigots is cultural bigotry. LOL Assuming that the vast majority of people making less than you, or I do, right.. So the vast majority of the actual middle class is crappy, unclean, loud, etc. Riiiight. Quote: To your second point: increase tax revenue = for the good of everyone in the city. It doesn't mean anyone gets to live there. Not if they are in abated property, or work in NY so their taxes get paid there first.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 16:03
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They fill a need for housing for plenty of professionals who are not yet deep in the six figure range. It keeps the area dynamic, unlike the northern end of Hoboken which is now so dull, mostly because everyone is older, and cookie cutter similar, and lame, so the only music venue in town moved out.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 16:00
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Agreed. Some people are under the impression that their suburban experiences growing up in the last 30 years is normal for an urban environment.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 15:42
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Assuming middle income or even lower income means bad behavior is actual bigotry. It also allows plausible deniability fro racism.
As for the abatements, they were given so that the area would develop for the good of the entire city, not the lucky few who live there and then want to keep everyone out.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 15:39
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Maybe, but I'm in my mid-40s and have accumulated a lot of stuff over the years. I need the space for:
1. A home office that is a luxury because my current job lets me work from home two days a week at least, 2. Hobbies like model building and painting, my motorcycle, and my BBQ smoker and grill that require their own spaces, 3. Pets, my two cats, that would be shitty to coop up in a smaller place. 4. My own car, for which I want parking, since even nice neighborhoods have car theft and break ins. If those factors were different, I could get by with a lot less space, move closer to an even more convenient neighborhood, and be just as well off. If I was younger, it would definitely cross my mind to do so.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 15:34
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Posted on: 2014/6/26 15:19
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Because the area was developed with a shit ton of public money in the form of tax abatements and publicly built infrastructure. Welfare by any other name...
Posted on: 2014/6/26 15:09
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Not really if it requires significant variances, which all these largish proposed developments do.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 15:08
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It depends. I know multiple professionals that are very active locally and regionally, and their apartment is just a place to sleep, shower and change clothes. For them, they would rather spend their time and attention on going out and about, and taking care of interests. For several of them, a small apartment lets them travel more, rent studio space with other artists, or frees up attention that would be spent on maintenance or cleaning.
It would not be for me, but as a single guy, I don't need more than my 800sqft, and only that much because I have a full room devoted to a home office. But, I trade off interior living space for two garages and a full deck. Trade offs.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 15:06
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And more stereotypes..
Want to add welfare queens and boisterous "urban" youth to your list? You're a straight up bigot. And whining about being intolerant of bigots is the disingenuous defense of a bigot. "How dare you be intolerant of my shitty intolerance?" No one said that standards need be dropped on behavior. But reserving an entire part of the city for the 95th percentile and up is simple shitty exclusionism when public money went into building the area. At least some mid-income units should be requires in any new development.. and by that REAL mid-income.. close to the city median.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 14:52
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Your words man.. if you don't want to sound like a bigot, don't write stuff that is objectively bigoted.
No amount of cutely picture posting can get around that.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 14:36
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Meh..
"I don't want poors or *wink* those people near me" If the shoe fits.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 14:18
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It works with locals. but outside of Hudson County that won't help him. That is how low in the totem Hudson County is.
It's like Christies's delusion that a governor of NJ can get the Republican nomination for president when to a large proportion of the party he is a Northeast liberal RINO. Sometimes local politics will trump general principals. New Jersey is very suburban voter based, and almost never will vote for a candidate for governor from the three or four largest cities.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 14:16
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And I rest my case. Justification for being a bigot.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 13:52
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And the funny thing is that it won't work for him. The state will not vote for a one term mayor from Jersey City.
For one thing, it's easier to get elected to a Senate seat that will ship you off to work with 99 other pols than to be the local state chief executive that people need to live with. Booker had much better image building. Fulop's is too superficial a copy. He comes across as kind of a mild nebbish in person, and that will not fly in a statewide race. Besides the memory of Booker using the local office as a mere stepping stone is too fresh, and resentment toward Booker will fall on him. Aside from that, Hudson County has no real pull statewide, and much of the rest of the state looks down on us. A mayor of JC can be a big political power, but it is one behind the scenes.
Posted on: 2014/6/26 13:49
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