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This comes across as rather patronizing, dense city centers are not only way people should live. You accept the trade offs of living in a dense city, but not ev
by dahdum 9y ago
This comes across as rather patronizing, dense city centers are not only way people should live. You accept the trade offs of living in a dense city, but not everyone should be expected to feel the same way about the crime rates, poor schools, traffic, noise pollution, or SF style feces/needle filled streets.
- icebraining 9y agoI agree that not everyone should have to live in city centers, although that raises questions about the cost per capita of public services and who pays for them. But I can assure you that high crime rates, poor schools and SF style feces/needle filled streets are not inevitable characteristics of dense cities. And as someone currently living in a small town with a lot of farm machinery, I can also assure you that noise pollution is unfortunately not exclusive to cities.
- kadenshep 9y ago>You accept the trade offs of living in a dense city, but not everyone should be expected to feel the same way about the crime rates, poor schools, traffic, noise pollution, or SF style feces/needle filled streets. City centers shouldn't be expected to subsidize other people's ideal life styles. Crime rates and poor schools wouldn't be a problem if we took a fraction of the money we spend on infrastructure of suburbs and pointed it towards maintaining and improving city centers. >or SF style feces/needle filled streets. I'm sorry, what was that about patronizing? None of the characteristics you mentioned are inherit or even a common quality of city centers.