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Re:Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years by la6472 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @07:10PM (#31090578)
Suburbs are not rural areas. Suburbs are sane living condition which every human being in the planet is entitled to.

Suburbs are also the source of majority of tax revenue.

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Re:Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years by arrosenberg on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @07:54PM (#31090951)
Entitled, huh? I don’t see what entitles you to any particular mode of living, but its your ethos.

Suburbs may be the majority (I have no idea if thats true), but that doesn’t make them self-sustaining. They only exist because cities paid for highways, water, and power infrastructure to make it all possible (and continue to fund their maintenance) - exponentially moreso the further west you go.

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Re:Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years by la6472 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @08:31PM (#31091275)
Nope I don’t agree. Cities have morphed into Subarus in the 1950s and since then they have been the source of more influence and revenue generation at least in NA.
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