This is a heartbreaking thread. One key to the greatness of our country is individual freedom.
When I taught in Shanghai in the summer of 2019, the block after block of concrete communist house was incredibly depressing. Bars on the windows; decrepit conditions. I know because I lived in one of these.
It was so great to return to the U.S. to see individual housing everywhere. One has the choice to live small or big, to dress up your house with flowers, or not. Our choices as individuals in a free country is readily seen in our choice of housing.
I’d hate to see this freedom lost.
When we went to eastern Europe & Russia it was the same feeling. Mile after mile of depressing cinderblock apartments, all very run down, no beauty or individuality. Very very depressing.