Especially apartments where people might... dry their laundry on the balcony?

Ask Riverview is... special

And apparently people think having apartment buildings makes a town no longer "A great place to grow"

People are stupid

(also how many of these people specificing this are 55 and older?)

Apartment buildings are great

Honestly, I think for a lot of people, apartments, condos and townhouses make more sense than a single standalone house, because you really don't need much space if your household is just one or two people

Apartment buildings ARE great

And having had to FIND an apartment in this town in the past year... yes, Boomer, more damn apartment buildings ARE in fact what this town needs

One perk of a condo/townhouse/apartment is not having a lawn to mow lol

We're hoping to buy before Gav starts kindergarten, but we're really just looking for a townhouse

One bedroom for us, one for him and one to use as an office since I WFH

That sounds awesome

To be fair, apartments tend to lower housing prices because more people can live in smaller spaces

that's the theory anyway

I want to know where these people think we'd put the single family houses to hold the same number of residents as these buildings and whether they think everyone can afford one

House prices are much lower here than in Toronto but they've still been climbing

;__; I'm trying to find somewhere to live in Freddy and it's. Not. Going well.

Weirdly the baby was almost a bigger issue than the cats even though banning children if it's not a 55+ building is in fact illegal

that's... weird as shit?

But landlords have gone nuts in NB lately because Higgs lets them do what they want.

I've been hearing a lot of people say they have NEVER seen as many places ban kids in rentals as they see in Moncton/Riverview

Having an apartment means I can live close to all the things I want to live close to, AND never have to garden!

Which checks out for me, most places seem to realize family status is very much a category you are not permitted to discriminate on

Also: less to clean!

But for whatever reason Moncton landlords don't think the law applies to them

I don't want a big yard and big detached house. A townhouse/row house/condo I actually would be nice tho.

blueflowers: See, I would like to garden! I tried to garden on my balcony in Toronto. But it's low on my priority list

The rest of the yard maintenance sounds blech but GARDENING I like

So I get a plot in my dad's garden

I am the opposite, I hate gardening haha

He actually put a new plot in that's narrower so Gavin can help in a couple years

He's VERY excited about it

I should clarify that it's a vegetable garden

awww

but yeah I am just. sick of renting buy an apartment, townhouse, whatever? I do want community and I want to be able to paint my walls, hang whatever. etc

Ah, NIMBYs.

I think that as long as the walls are good and the HOA isn't too intrusive

Then apartments/condos are a good idea

My mom bought this condo with the intention of me inheriting it, almost 2 years ago now. She kept looking at stand-alone houses and I kept being like, no, look, we do not need to have to deal with lawn care and external maintenance and snow removal.

NIMBYs are fucking wild. Oh nooooo people might be able to afford to live in the area again, people who might work ~service and retail jobs~ oh nooooooo

If you want a local economy, people have to be able to live in the area, that should be obvious but lol

It’s a huge problem in the USA too

yes it is

what's NIMBY mean?

Not In My Back Yard

ah thank you

it's bonkers in Toronto too, 75% of the city is still zoned single family housing. in the biggest city in the country

Dear NIMBYs, if t
you want the property tax increases you're eternally complaining about to be less steep, then you want greater density. You know what gets you density? Apartment buildings. Low to mid rise. Infilled into your neighbourhood

it's not even a quiet residential neighborhood

most of the area is commercial

it's basically optimal for density

And there we have it. It always seems to boil down to People Not Like Them might move into the hypothetical buildings once you pare away logical possibilities

I will say that the people who are arguing against apartments being built on an old tennis court next to the Child's future school have my support... but not because I care about their sight lines. I support it because the proposal is a land swap that would give the deeply undersized school more land.

It was K-6 when Saint's sister went there. Now it's K-6 with a portable and the board trying to figure out if there's any way to redraw cachement zones with minimal parental howling.

oh this is TOTALLY about the town not being completely white anymore

also my dad DID engage and suggested they might want to move up one of the outlying villages if they don't want apartment buildings to exist

also I should note that the buildings in question are going to be six storeys

uuuuuugh Pele

people

lmao six stories, oh no,

racist NIMBYs are the saddest.