REAL ESTATE

Your Objections To Development Are Counter-Productive

The protests to most real estate development are often misguided and ill-informed, leading to unintended effects.

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I have been seeing a lot of commentaries online lately about real estate development in southern New Jersey, and specifically in Cape May County. Mostly it’s uninformed opinions on how it must be stopped. How it’s the root of all evil. That it’s our civic duty to stop it. But I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Opposition to all development will only ensure bad development. That is a fact.

Generally speaking, most of us have no idea what we’re talking about, most of the time, about most things. It’s true. We’d all be better off if we admitted it. We’re all experts of our own opinions, which are based on nothing but shit, and little else. It’s okay, most of my knowledge is about an inch deep as well. I’m equally full of shit. We’re all in good company. Just a little delusional. A little hopeful. Mostly wrong.

I read a lot so I’m familiar with a lot of subjects, which makes me a jack of all trades and master of none. Well, none isn’t quite accurate. I’m an expert in quite a few things, but they tend to be rather specific that involve a few decades of experience. That…