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Thank you for succinctly explaining why I like living in a large and dense city, where there's a culture of not giving a shit what nearby people are doing and l

Thank you for succinctly explaining why I like living in a large and dense city, where there's a culture of not giving a shit what nearby people are doing and letting each other be somewhat anonymous. Of course that can have its downsides, but being allowed to not be perfectly conformist is a major upside. I don't have kids but if I did, this is exactly the kind of nasty thing that would make me think twice about moving to the suburbs, extra space and yards be damned.

khedoros 10y ago
I'd go the other direction: Either somewhere with fewer people and more space, or taking the time to build community with the people around me, so that they'd be more likely to come to me directly if they perceive a problem than to hand it off to some higher authority to handle. Dense cities give me the creeps.