Suburbs also make kids totally dependent on their parents to get to activities, friends, etc. [Highly urban-oriented personality here, decidedly with you in ge

Suburbs also make kids totally dependent on their parents to get to activities, friends, etc. [Highly urban-oriented personality here, decidedly with you in general ...] Here, a purely rationalistic and quantitative analysis might not back this up. It's not necessarily clear that there are fewer vehicle-miles travelled and fossil fuels expended in stocking every corner grocery in a dense urban metropolis vs. one 3000-mile salad backhauled to a Walmart SuperCenter to which everyone within a 10 mi radius has to drive. Pound for pound, the latter approach might actually be more cost and resource-efficient in a lot of cases. But of course, there's more to life than robotic efficiency.