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I'm a millennial, and it made me sick to read this. It made me glad that I live where I live. I don't live in the suburbs in spite of having my own discrete uni
by burntsushi 9y ago
I'm a millennial, and it made me sick to read this. It made me glad that I live where I live. I don't live in the suburbs in spite of having my own discrete unit; I live in the suburbs precisely because I have my own discrete unit.
I want my own backyard so that I can go and enjoy sitting by a fire with music I like without ever needing to worry that I might have to compete with others on a cool Friday night in Autumn.
I want my own driveway so that I can go play basketball whenever I feel like, without needing to feel pressured to play nice with others.
I want my own car so that I can drive to and from work in peace, and so that I can do whatever I want in my car, like smoke a cigar. What's the likelihood that my friendly neighborhood ride sharing service will let me do that? Zero. My car is just about the only place left I can smoke in Massachusetts when I'm not at home, and I'm happy to pay for that privilege.
Even if I were OK with all of that, there are numerous dubious claims made in this article about how this new style of living would benefit the environment and would presumably save people from flooding. Really? Would it? How did you figure that? Or does it just sound like it makes sense?
Many signs point to me being stranger than my generational cohorts, but I like the suburbs precisely because I viscerally dislike living in shared spaces.
- ant6n 9y agoFree health advice: smoking kills.
- eastWestMath 9y agoSo basically you like to live in the suburbs for antisocial reasons, and you your argument against the research showing suburbs are an ecological disaster boils down to "nuh-uh".
- amigoingtodie 9y agoNot that I agree completely with the original comment, but I, too, feel like when visiting a 'city', I am competing for resources. I do not enjoy this adversarial feeling.
- eastWestMath 9y agoI guess it's adversarial if you want resources all to yourself. But something like a basketball court is easily shared.
- burntsushi 9y agoI didn't make any argument against any research. I stated my own personal desires which run deeply contrary to the desires grafted on to me by the OP. Also, none of what I said had anything to do with being antisocial.
- eastWestMath 9y agoYou said you don't want to play nicely with others, I don't know how much more explicit you could have been.
- burntsushi 9y agoI didn't say that generally. My main point was clearly that I don't want to live in a shared space. I'm otherwise happy to place nice with others! (There is plenty of evidence online that I do, in fact, play nicely with others.) Anyway, it's pretty clear to me that you're going to misinterpret anything I say in the worst possible light, so I think we should stop this thread.
- tosser350 9y agoMillennials are being prepped to be the new serfs. They'll live on the land of their lords, riding in cars they don't own, using subscription services and software they don't own, working "gigs" with no rights, all of which can be revoked the minute they step out of line or run out of money.