Suranjan Sen

California High-Speed Rail is creating good-paying jobs for hardworking members of the trades. 🛠️16,000+ jobs created 🏗️1,600+ daily-workers dispatched These jobs mean steady, mortgage-paying careers for thousands of Californian families. #BuildHSR

I am once again begging the political right to actually care about property rights. The way to “increase the housing stock” is to let people actually build on, and freely use, their own property.

You know what's politically popular AND increases the housing stock AND follows through on the promises of the last election AND preserves the American wilderness? DEPORTATIONS

That said I am the rare example of a person who actually likes British food

Of course, they'd be smarter than most, but they also had far more resources to achieve that. Given Russia's shortages of educated people, they'd likely be nurses or teachers entirely through merit, but that skill didnt fall out of a coconut tree

If you have to pay property taxes you don’t actually own the land. It’s painful to acknowledge, but it’s true. We are not free people. We are people who pretend we are free because we’ve been told we are.

Blanket upzoning nightmare. Imagine you manage to buy a house so you can enjoy the backyard, have trees around you, kids can play outside and have some privacy. But the City of Calgary only cares for the profits of inner city developers at the expense of neighbourhood's well being. So they let them shove an 8 unit shitbox transient dwelling where an affordable detached house was. Windows are now facing people's backyard. Zero privacy. Mature trees are gone. It will block hours of sunlight everyday. No new parking spaces. There goes the value of the property trying to sell it.