> The real prospects of the lack of zoning is something that nobody wants, which is why literally every civil place in the world has zoning.

Calling Houston uncivil is a subjective judgement I can’t objectively falsify, and so is calling its residents “nobody”, but the latter act strikes me as ironically uncivil, and IMO not in line with https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments.