I just want more housing to be built. Evanston is great and I miss it, and my wife and I would likely still be living there with our two kids if they hadn't made new three bedroom apartments functionally illegal to build sometimes in the mid 20th century.

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Are we talking about housing prices? Because Evanston is stupid expensive. Not like Manhattan or anything but we got priced out making $300k a year and ended up moving a bit west.

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See, you and I are both YIMBYs, but the difference between us is that you seem to think full-bore YIMBYism would result in the suburbs and the entire Midwest emptying out as everyone pursues their heart’s secret desire to live in NYC, and I think that’s bananas

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but the whole goddamn premise of trek--yes, including TOS--is that with science, reason, teamwork, faith, honesty, openness--all those old-fashioned liberal virtues--you can overcome these horrifying obstacles, overcome violence, overcome war and destructions

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the thing i come back to, over and over--which stuff like LOWER DECKS got, and so much other latter-day trek has forgotten--is that the whole idea of trek is that they exist in a genuinely horrifying universe, but *choose* to pursue peace and diplomacy anyways... and it works.

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