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Originally Posted by Austinite
Yes, that's it! Your neighbors who might disagree with you are simply ignorant! They don't have a tenable opinion* of what should happen to their neighborhood; therefore, they are simply waiting for people like you and large, city-wide organizations to "truely educate"** them about what urbanization really is (as opposed, of course, to what they in their pitiful ignorance merely thought it was***).
I joined this forum because I like buildings**** and I love Austin*****. Those feelings are, I promise, compatible with being sympathetic with people who are wary of seeing the places in which they live, work, and raise their families change almost beyond recognition within a few years' time******.
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Translation:
*Unselfish opinion
**Disagree with them
***Which is why, like all the great urban cores of the country, Austin is a forest of tall buildings ...oh, wait.
****...to be built as wide and short as possible.
*****...so much that I want it to sprawl out as far as possible
******...because progress does not mean "tall buildings" or "major corporations", it means "sprawl and single family homes stretching into the hinterlands"