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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I'm seeing lots of praise of this from YIMBY/urbanist ideological grounds (which I fully support), but also I personally spent months living in buildings like this in China and I quite enjoyed it. https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1720816222529613960
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0xLuo
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Many Chinese people wouldn't enjoy living in "pigeonholes" if given the option of living in single houses.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
true, but all lifestyle choices are made in the context of resource constraints. Lots and lots of people are clearly choosing to live in these over similarly priced single houses given the other properties (eg. transportation distance) that those houses inevitably have.
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Dima Buterin
@dbuterin
The imprint from our childhood is a factor too. I grew up in a big apartment building and this is my default preference.
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Utility Coder
@utility
Are you by chance, related to Vitalik?
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Boris Mann
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Yes very much. I think this can be influenced in different ways. I have family in Berlin that have lived in apartments for 40 years. Of course the same in New York. Many Canadians and Americans however see “single family home” as the end goal.
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