One person's baseline is another's luxury.
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Replying to @FitzTheReporter @phillip_dupree and
I'll remember to use the baseline argument next time a bunch of urbanists tell me we can give up cars for e-scooters
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Replying to @FitzTheReporter @kimmaicutler and
I wasn't making an argument? Whatever works for one's family, works. And I'm a huge advocate for more dense urban housing. As an introvert I was grateful for personal space as a teenager, and understand a family wanting that for their children.
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Replying to @phillip_dupree @FitzTheReporter and
There are a lot of teenagers who don’t have the luxury of personal space and would kill for that. But their family situation may be in more of a critical shape than yours. You must sympathize
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Replying to @Jarvis_Neely @FitzTheReporter and
Luxury is quite relative, yes. My original comment may have been flippant, and for that I apologize! Yet I disagree with lumping "individual bedrooms for kids" in with offices, separate play rooms, etc. I'd raise my eyebrows at moving further for the latter, not for the former.
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Replying to @phillip_dupree @Jarvis_Neely and
I think there's something to be said for how much you value the San Francisco or urban lifestyle. As someone who grew up here and saw family and friends evicted and forced out of The City, I would take a long hard look at moving voluntarily for *any* reason.
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Replying to @FitzTheReporter @Jarvis_Neely and
Would love to have a more nuanced convo than Twitter allows about this w/ u sometime. Awful you saw fam evicted. I think the answer is less denigrating others for wanting more space (not accusing you of this) and more building more housing to make it less scarce and contentious.
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Replying to @phillip_dupree @Jarvis_Neely and
the remarkable thing about nuance is it means you can also have multiple positions. you can want more housing to be built *while at the same time* thinking the desire for more space supports a suburban, car-centric lifestyle.
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Replying to @FitzTheReporter @phillip_dupree and
I would definitely love to read a story about how different kinds of SF families with very young children do it from very high to very low-income.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @phillip_dupree and
Great idea
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Like who takes care of the kids while at work? How does it differ if they live in non-profit run housing, public housing, if they're tenants, if they're homeowners or if they're living in their parents house, etc.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @FitzTheReporter and
My mother-in-law moved in with us. Win/win. Once kids hit middle school, it gets easier, as they can get themselves to school via Muni.
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Replying to @peternocturnal @kimmaicutler and
That makes so much sense. Most SFUSD surveys i've seen show that SF kids overwhelmingly start taking Muni in Middle School.
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