Perhaps it's a failure of my ability to empathize then. I have owned a home for 8 years, I have never once been concerned with anything going on nearby. Buildings being built of any sort, of any height, at all. And I genuinely struggle to enter the mind of someone for whom this is top priority, something they put time into.
> Perhaps it's a failure of my ability to empathize then. I have owned a home for 8 years, I have never once been concerned with anything going on nearby. Buildings being built of any sort, of any height, at all.
You don't really have to empathize all that much. Can't you imagine anything you wouldn't like built near your home?
> And I genuinely struggle to enter the mind of someone for whom this is top priority, something they put time into.
OK how about this: you live in a quiet neighborhood, where kids are safe playing in the street. Your house gets a nice amount of sun in the afternoon. You like it.
Then someone builds a couple of 20 story apartment blocks, just south of you. The sun is blocked, traffic increases. The neighborhood isn't quiet anymore.
> You don't really have to empathize all that much. Can't you imagine anything you wouldn't like built near your home?
A data center or sewage treatment plant (but I repeat myself)
> Then someone builds a couple of 20 story apartment blocks, just south of you. The sun is blocked, traffic increases. The neighborhood isn't quiet anymore.
Okay? Why am I entitled to dictate who builds what near my home? Because I bought a 0.25 acre plot there?
Maybe the 20 story apartment block will contain a new friend. Maybe it'll bring a bunch more kids to play with the neighborhood kids, who btw aren't plants and don't require constant sunlight. Maybe the block will come with a pool I could use for a reasonable fee, or basketball courts for the kids. Maybe that block going up will increase the overall local population enough so we get better restaurants in the area, and it'll almost certainly increase property tax revenues to local schools.
Like I dunno if you find this situation absolutely intolerable, you could always just... move?
