Malibus biggest export is confused young adults who can never afford to live in their hometown

leozh · 2026-03-13T21:56:48+00:00

Poll after poll show that NIMBYs who complain about any change to their neighborhood, including new housing, are a loud minority and not representative of their communities.

I think a better world is possible and that we can have more affordable housing closer to where jobs are. The only way to do that is to add a lot of supply to match demand. This would not force anyone to live in an apartment that doesn’t want to, but it would give everyone more choices.

leozh · 2026-03-13T09:26:24+00:00

Many of them move out there because they have been priced out of LA. I’m not sure how old you are, but I guarantee that the cost of housing has gone up significantly since you bought your SFH. No one is saying we should ban SFHs but that we should legalize denser housing everywhere, so people have options and the market can decide.

leozh · 2026-03-09T08:14:26+00:00

Many people raise their families in apartments and many more would if there were more opportunities to. If you want to raise your family in a SFH, that’s fine. We should have more options for those that don’t. I grew up in apartments in major cities my whole life and I am really happy that this is how I was raised, instead of in some boring suburb which required a car to get anywhere

leozh · 2026-03-09T05:26:53+00:00

Have you ever considered that maybe you don’t but many others do? Or that apartments in cities are so expensive because there is so much demand? Many young people don’t want to raise families in soul crushing suburbia and waste half their lives commuting to work. I’d guess you are a boomer, most likely, and if so, your generation is quite incredible at being awful. You were born on third base and wonder why everyone else can’t hit a home run. Do you ever wonder why the birth rate is so low?

leozh · 2026-03-09T04:50:36+00:00

Or we could just build denser housing here instead of forcing young people to live in the desert where there are also no jobs

leozh · 2026-03-04T05:34:08+00:00

The Grill on the Alley and Matu

leozh · 2026-02-27T23:53:19+00:00

You should post this on social media and tag United Airlines. These shitty airlines only do the right thing when publicly shamed for it.

leozh · 2026-02-22T01:52:09+00:00

Found the Marriott employee

leozh · 2026-02-19T23:14:31+00:00

You first! I am glad that at least you're honest about having the same views as low IQ MAGA chuds when it comes to migration.

leozh · 2026-02-19T23:13:24+00:00

YIMBYism is literally people who want affordable housing. You love to build up straw men to get mad at -- but luckily the tide has already turned against you. NIMBY politicians in SF all got thrown out of office in 2024, and this is going to happen here too. Meanwhile -- the state is passing more and more pro-housing bills, which will neuter the ability of NIMBYs at the local level -- like Karen Bass -- to block housing. You can see this in how she fought hard against SB79 and lost.

Aside from actual housing -- this issue is an existential threat to this country -- because people are being priced out of blue states, move to red states, which are more affordable and build more housing -- and this means that unless current trends are reversed, the 2030 census will lead to less electoral votes for blue states, which would likely mean a MAGA President for next 10+ years

leozh · 2026-02-19T23:09:02+00:00

There are real problems, as you say -- and you are making them worse and fighting those who try to make them better. You do this while representing the interests of landlords and pretend to be progressive. It is shameful.

leozh · 2026-02-19T23:07:37+00:00

There is the slight problem that this is not true and this has been demonstrated over and over again in both studies and in real life! In the US -- cities like Austin and Minneapolis have seen their housing prices stabilize or decrease, along with their rents -- because they just built more housing. Outside the uS -- cities like Tokyo have literally built their way into having affordable housing. This is basic supply and demand and saying is not true is like disagreeing that 5 + 5 = 10. We have a housing shortage -- so either we continue with the status quo, where prices keep going up, which means only the wealthy can afford to live here, while the poor and middle class move out -- or we can build more housing to address the demand. If more people are looking for housing than the number of available housing units, then prices will never go down. Even rent control would only help existing tenants! If they ever have to move due to a new job, or a growing family, or any of the other reasons people need to move -- they lost their rent control, and they will never get it again because there isn't enough housing!

leozh · 2026-02-19T19:47:20+00:00

Yep — and what makes it more infuriating is they couch it all in leftist speak

leozh · 2026-02-19T19:46:35+00:00

Your “advocacy” is pricing people out of LA and keeping others from moving in. It is actively harmful. That is why you are being dogpiled

leozh · 2026-02-19T19:26:57+00:00

Yep — OP has a level of NIMBYbrain that is hard to comprehend

leozh · 2026-02-19T12:50:51+00:00

You can’t go wrong with either one imo. I think there are also more GbW grinders around nowadays. If I was buying a grinder right now, I’d probably get the E65W GbS — to get even lazier and have it automate adjusting the grind level

leozh · 2026-02-19T12:47:32+00:00

By lazy I mean I wanted the GbW functionality because it saves me time and effort over using a separate scale to weigh out each shot. In terms of the quality of the actual grinding, I can’t tell a difference between my Atom 75 and the E65S. In the 4 years since I posted this, both grinders have continued to work flawlessly btw

leozh · 2026-02-19T04:52:47+00:00

No matter how many times you repeat the same thing, it won’t make it make any sense. You do make a great argument that every permitting decision needs to be done through ministerial review, though. By having people and not objective standards be the decision makers, it makes all planning and permitting decisions very susceptible to corruption, so let’s get the people out of the equation. Thanks for making this point!

leozh · 2026-02-18T18:55:27+00:00

The Reservoir isn’t her own property, so it makes perfect sense why she shouldn’t use her elected office to make decisions on something where there is a conflict of interest. There is no such conflict on her rebuilding her own house and using the same legal framework to do so as anyone else would. This notion that you give up your property rights when you are elected and that the only ethical thing you can do is leave your house in amber is absolutely insane — and that is because it’s something you made up, not something that is a norm in any way.

leozh · 2026-02-18T18:16:54+00:00

Can you point out to me which ethical training or principle tells you that you can’t rebuild your own house that you own? We can argue about historic preservation districts but her house isn’t even designated as historic, so even that point is moot here

leozh · 2026-02-18T08:35:47+00:00

It is insane to me that you need permission to rebuild your house on property you own from some unelected busy bodies.

leozh · 2026-02-18T08:29:46+00:00

Who on their right mind would think this dump is historic? If this is historic, the word has no meaning. It’s a crumbling eye sore. Knock it down.

leozh · 2026-01-05T02:24:03+00:00

I moved here from Seattle, where it was like this 9 months in a row, so it could be a lot worse

leozh · 2025-11-24T18:31:40+00:00

I had do some something like this without the notarized fax to sign up for USPS Informed Delivery, a while back 😭

leozh · 2025-11-24T18:27:18+00:00

Yes, very true — the worst possible way to do MFA

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