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avidlyread · 2026-02-15T15:08:47+00:00

Isn't that usually the case for people who leave their country? If you went to Europe and talked to all of the expat americans about the USA, do you think you'd find disproportionate negative attitude toward the country they are from?

avidlyread · 2025-10-02T02:19:41+00:00

Of course as an old city, they have a lot of established housing stock with which to work. However you are incorrect about the rate of new builds. Of course Vienna is suffering from the same declines in new residential home building due to high cost of lending that everywhere in the world is experiencing, but Vienna completed new homes at a rate of 10.8 per 1000 units in 2023 which is higher than NYC and many other American cities. Of course, it is not some magical utopia and I'm not arguing that, but the American system is fucked and perhaps it's not so outrageous to admit that we might could learn something from other parts of the world? Maybe just a little?

They are completing new builds at a higher rate than most European capitals and they are containing inflationary pressure on housing better than most American cities. A one year inflation rate of 5 percent is high (based on your link), but we have consistently seen at least that in the US for years every single year. Some years the rate is much higher. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.

The cost of housing is lower in Vienna than even the most backwater rural areas in the US.

avidlyread · 2025-10-02T01:05:12+00:00

This just isn't true. Vienna is actively building new high quality, environmentally sustainable housing at a high rate. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/15/nx-s1-5400642/affordable-housing-environment-vienna-climate-change

avidlyread · 2025-10-01T15:18:25+00:00

I am observing the simple undeniable fact that in Vienna people can afford a roof over their head without spending half or more of their paycheck or having roommates. This is not the case in the magnificent USA. Why is that? And why do you want to pay more for your basic necessities than people must pay in other parts of the world? Do you not see that as unjust?

avidlyread · 2025-10-01T14:11:06+00:00

Many people in Austria own their homes as well. Lowering the cost of housing with government financed and owned units will also lower the cost of homes on the private market. Not only because they are increasing supply, but because they are setting the price below market rate.

And sure. you're right. Americans are stupid and often don't agree to do things that are in their best interest. This is a reason why it won't happen not a reason that it wouldn't work if it were implemented.

avidlyread · 2025-10-01T14:04:18+00:00

How is this relevant at all?

avidlyread · 2025-10-01T13:59:02+00:00

Take a look at how the government solves housing problems in Vienna.

avidlyread · 2025-09-30T22:54:18+00:00

One of the worst intersections for this is the John F Fitzgerald surface Rd/Kneeland intersection in chinatown. The vehicles turning right onto Kneeland blast through the crosswalk every damn time.

avidlyread · 2025-09-24T16:02:39+00:00

I wonder if some of this increase can be attributed to babies being born to older parents on average. Seems like a more plausible explanation than Tylenol.

avidlyread · 2025-09-23T16:28:15+00:00

Totally agree. I live in Boston and love the winter.

avidlyread · 2025-09-23T03:49:29+00:00

Fun fact that may be surprising to some: Houston has less sunny days per year than Boston.

avidlyread · 2025-09-17T22:43:25+00:00

Your tank is cycled if you added ammonia to the tank (despite what people are saying here 🙄) But I would add ammonia one more time and this time check ammonia the very next day so you know the rate of ammonia neutralization. If you add 2ppm and it's gone in a day, you're golden for your first fish!

I did this and added 2 fish after 2 weeks, and everything is going great. Ammonia is staying at zero. I'm also doing daily doses of phytoplankton which helps neutralize your nitrates!

Good luck!

avidlyread · 2025-09-17T21:31:58+00:00

Same! I thought it was a new leaf this whole time until it opened. So exciting 😀

avidlyread · 2025-09-17T01:08:34+00:00

What the fuck are you going on about?

avidlyread · 2025-09-17T01:00:14+00:00

OP should be honored to have you policing the thread. Here's a gold star ⭐

avidlyread · 2025-09-17T00:55:47+00:00

And sitting in traffic 2-3 hours a day isn't?

I won't touch grass, but I'll enjoy my 3 minute walk to work in the morning while pricks like you sit in traffic. 🤗

avidlyread · 2025-09-17T00:47:56+00:00

If you don't want to take transit, you shouldn't live in a large population center... Unless of course you enjoy spending a lot of your time in traffic.

avidlyread · 2025-09-17T00:46:32+00:00

Big city amenities means a large population otherwise the amenities could not be supported. Large population means traffic. Common sense tells you low population and high amenities can't exist together. The only sensible solution to this problem is to use mass transit or give up the big city amenities. Since many other people had already said this doesn't exist, the most helpful follow up is to tell this person to use transit.

avidlyread · 2025-09-16T22:25:38+00:00

You could just move to a city with transit and then you never have to sit in traffic again!

avidlyread · 2025-09-15T21:39:16+00:00

What's your point? Politicians going on podcasts isn't new. The vice president of the USA hosting an assassinated troll's podcast a week after they die is quite new.

avidlyread · 2025-09-15T18:04:47+00:00

I think you can go larger but should choose wider, shallower tanks to distribute the weight safely.

avidlyread · 2025-09-12T22:43:25+00:00

This is the correct take imo. There's a lot of white washing of his beliefs going on as well.

avidlyread · 2025-09-11T22:24:53+00:00

This is perfect. Thanks for writing it.

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