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Re:Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Me... by rescripting on Monday May 30, 2022 @04:05PM (#31563122)
People hold those preferences because when you live in the burbs you bear less of the cost of the externalities of urban sprawl. Basically, you get more bang for your buck.

The property tax rate is the same for a whole municipality whether you are downtown in high density housing or in the burbs.

You need more roads/public transportation/water mains/gas mains/buried cables etc to serve fewer people in the suburbs.

Make property taxes proportional to the infrastructure required to support a neighbourhood.

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Re:Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Me... by pandaman on Monday May 30, 2022 @10:57PM (#31565698)
If in Canada they get gas, water, sewer and electricity paid by taxes then why not just charge the users instead? And yes, the payment for utility includes the maintenance cost. Roads wear depends on the amount of traffic so if you really wanted to be fair you might end up with the dense urbanites paying more (also we supposed to pay for this with the fuel and registration taxes in the US).

Public transportation in suburbia? Does it really happen in Canada? In the US suburbia subsidizes public transportation without using it.

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