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  • I wonder if the underlying problem is that it can set precedent against the entire business model of “child-free living complexes” and similar “retirement residences, non-paliative/long term care”. Both of those models, by design, restrict tenants based on age.

    Before asking this next question, I’m in no way advocating for this. Why does a corporation get to benefit from these while a smaller or singular party cannot? Where do we draw the boundary or why do we maintain it? Is the problem because those in charge are benefiting from it via passive or direct investment?

    If it’s not ok to discriminate against a family with children looking to rent a home, why can that same family not rent an apartment in a retirement complex or other style residence where non-retired adults without children live by design?










  • When I tried just a couple years ago it was 6 or 7 months before I got a follow up. It’s also not intended for people with children, at all. They told me it would be at least 1 year of mandatory barracks living with multiple locations during that time, some for as short as 3 months.

    Ultimately I decided against because I have young children and I didn’t want to miss that much time, knowing I’d be physically and mentally drained on weekends which would possibly be the only time I might be able to see them.

    Happy I didn’t pursue it further because I landed the career change I was seeking in the private sector instead with a much higher starting wage and I’m home after work every day.


  • Ya but your argument is also expecting public space to be given to you to the detriment of others. It’s a double edged sword.

    “Park on a different street” literally just shifts the problem.

    If a public parking lot was available then ya, totally feasible, but it’ll have to be big which then takes up the land from something else, again shifting the problem.

    You’re getting upitty with someone who is concerned that knee-jerk public policy is going to have large, likely unplanned, detrimental effects on the citizens outside of just themselves.