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Scrivener7

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1. I live in a walking town. I love it. As the article describes, I know the local shopkeepers an restaurant owners,
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 08:55 PM
Jun 2025

I know my neighbors and seldom venture out without meeting a friend and stopping to chat.

But in order to have such a lifestyle, a town needs to have multi-unit housing. And the DUers I have seen weighing in on multi-unit housing don't actually understand it at all, and they despise it. They're also astonishingly rude about it.

So while I agree wholeheartedly with this article, I doubt it will get much play here.

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I live in a walking town. I love it. As the article describes, I know the local shopkeepers an restaurant owners, Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #1
multi unit housing is fine... as long as you control who lives there. WarGamer Jun 2025 #2
Sure ZDU Jun 2025 #4
So you think that 55+ housing and college dorms are discriminatory? WarGamer Jun 2025 #5
Self-segregate ZDU Jun 2025 #6
As I say, people on DU don't understand it. My neighborhood is a mix of older and younger, families, couples and Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #7
As I'm sure you know... WarGamer Jun 2025 #8
Yes, but my comment is meant to disagree with your contention that you have to self-segregate Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #9
NYC co-ops are somewhat exclusive... are they bad too? WarGamer Jun 2025 #11
WarGamer, is your game to ZDU Jun 2025 #13
Stop moving those goal posts, dear. They're too heavy and you're going to hurt yourself. Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #17
No one moves goal posts. WarGamer Jun 2025 #18
I know who my neighbors are. Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #19
Thank you! ZDU Jun 2025 #3
I was hoping for a list and analysis of various walkable towns in the US fujiyamasan Jun 2025 #10
Visit Public Square @ CNU.org ZDU Jun 2025 #14
But moving to Europe would probably get you universal healthcare & gun control. n/t area51 Jun 2025 #12
True ZDU Jun 2025 #15
Gun control to an extent. Universal health care, unless you were born in certain countries is an American-made myth DFW Jun 2025 #16
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