Anti-NIMBY movement is winning with a simple message
I&#x27;m very much a pro YIMBY kind of guy, but I feel like there&#x27;s a hard pro-urbanization, anti-expansion aspect to this. And the reason that gets to me now is that, while I totally get the pros and cons of both urban and suburban settings, but this debate always seems to be binary, when in reality, it&#x27;s like every other socioeconomic factor, and is just a matter of tradeoffs. 
I&#x27;m saying this as a guy who has done the 2+ hour commute each direction, but who also is fortunate enough to live in a suburb and my commute is a whopping 4 minutes, so I obviously am prejudiced here.<p>But I really think that expanding development into further areas brings with it economic advantages for those outlying communities (and yes, gentrification as well), and we have far more space right now by going out rather than up. Why not use it?