Fucking NIMBYs at it again. They've already blocked a proposal for an affordable housing unit in Cape Elizabeth cause it it would detract from the "character" of the town.

And all of the retail outlet stores…yeah that’s historic New England alright!

Oof

Still waiting for mine to come back

Smells like NIMBY talk.

lol, charming parking lots

Exactly. Truly ill conceived. There is so much available land that’s far more suitable.

Freeport is such a weird town builds state of the art movie theater. Still closed

You sound like you don't spend much time with Gen Xers. I work in a company full of older Xers. They are almost the same as boomers in attitudes.

I take umbrage with your use of “you”. I voted for affordable housing and the new schools. The younger generation wants these things - but we have a long way to go. I also agree the town center is a strip mall.

The NIMBY movement is not unique to Cape. My previous town, Cambridge, MA has similar issues. The city says they want affordable housing but then you have neighborhood associations who say they support it - just not in their neighborhood. Same with my hometown in NY.

Trust me when I tell you many of us here in Cape support affordable housing.

They're only Democrats because Republicanism is now associated with low IQ, anti-intellectual, anti-education, fat, fundie Christian, poorly dressed, small vocabulary poor people from Alabama.

If there were a right-wing party in America that catered to high IQ, cognitive elitist, pro-education, secular, thin, well dressed, well read, well travelled rich and educated people who play lacrosse and wear J Crew, they would consider joining that party.

I knew, I've been stalking the website to check the status lol.

New England character? Freeport?

Yeah if you think of New England charm as a half empty mall with the roof taken off.

They want well behaved, well dressed, well mannered kids with high IQs and aspirations of becoming future doctors and lawyers. And who enjoy lacrosse, tennis, fencing, and equestrian.

the people that make these threads and spam "nimby" probably do not believe in nice areas. the better off the area the more spiteful the posts are about not wanting low income housing nearby

Cape Elizabeth is only socially progressive. They are anti-racism but pro-elitism. They don't like low IQ, poor, uneducated, fat, poorly dressed people. They like people of any skin color, sexual orientation, gender, or religion as long as they are thin, well dressed, well mannered, rich, educated, and smart.

Don’t fuhget deah!

There is no way in hell I would want to live in “down town Freeport” been here all my life and in the summer, you’d never leave or get back in and it’s gotten worse. Hard pass for me. There are all kinds of areas they can build but this would make the congestion even worse.

It’s labeled as satire but the fact is, you won’t be spoken to at all.

Nothing like the historic feel of the giant LL bean complex! Come on now.

What is that supposed to mean? Don’t put them in “nice” areas? You know there are low wage jobs that need working in Cape Elizabeth, right? So are people supposed to ride the bus from Biddeford to Cape Elizabeth to work at the Rite Aid in that one strip mall?

People deserve to live where they work. So either the minimum wage in Cape Elizabeth should be $30/hour (even at shit retail and food service jobs) or they need affordable housing. They can’t have it both ways. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm curious what happens if they fully succeed. All the towns that do this will end up being defacto retirement communities. Nobody can afford to move there except established boomers. Younger families with money aren't going to want to move to a town that has nothing but old people, because the schools will suck.

Nobody is winning.

Looks fine to me. I’d be okay if they built something like that in my town. Unfortunately the best lot for something like that in my town is now being turned into a 45 room “bed and breakfast” (really just a hotel that serves breakfast with an apartment for an employee to live in the building)

They did some similar sized new affordable housing in Auburn that does read more New England without being hokey or DisneyNewEnglandified. It looks a lot better than these buildings. Although the bay windows help. A hint of triple-decker.

>But it’s ok, you can keep thinking the town is just made up of all wealthy jerks who don’t want anything near anyone ever.

It's not. Just a majority.