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[โ€“] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I live in Houston. We have a grocery store in town that has a big apartment block over the top of it. A friend lives there and he jokes that he's taking the elevator to the grocery store any time I complain about traffic or parking.

Unfortunately, living in a posh apartment that's conveniently placed over a nice grocery store means the price of rent is astronomical. So he needs to work as a highly paid attorney in the oil industry to afford to live in a place where he doesn't need to use a car to get groceries.

[โ€“] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Well good on him at least for copping the first adopters price haha, hopefully you can put some stuff back where the city bulldozed to put carparks one day ๐Ÿ˜… one apartment at time

The ironic (Or perhaps just interesting) thing is that apartments are supposed to be cheaper living because you don't have a front or back yard.

It's vaguely that here, if location is the same apartment is usually cheaper than a free standing house, but apartments are usually better located near public transport and amenities (the whole point), so there's a slight premium for that.

The American description of apartments almost always coming along in the phrase "luxury condos" is perplexing (other than NYC, it seems)

In fairness, in Melbourne we also do not build many apartments. Far fewer than we should, mostly due to regulations and laws not being airtight around owners corporations, aka body corp, and conflicts of interest where the developer awards a building management contract before selling all the apartments... So people are a bit hesitant to sign up for that and apartment living is still a pretty foreign concept to most