Re:We Regulate the Wrong Things
by icebraining on Thursday November 01, 2018 @06:33PM
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Grocery stores on the lower floor of residential buildings is the norm here (I can think of five within walking distance) and I never heard people from those buildings complain about that. Restaurants yes, but even there I suspect it varies with the cleanliness of the place.
Maybe there are building adaptations to reduce the problem, that stores in that area don't do?
Presumably, the people who elected to live in a building over a grocery store would be exactly the type of people who wouldn't later complain about it.
This same principle doesn't seem to apply to people who buy cheap(er) houses near an existing airport, though...
People who don't like pests. People who don't like truck deliveries early in the morning or late at night.
Grocery stores are a mild example and I get the point you're making, but there are downsides to living above one. I've met people who listed one of those reasons for not living above one when I lived in Brooklyn.
It's mostly the pests though. I know a couple of people who lived above restaurants and grocery stores who said never again because of the amount of roaches that get into their place.