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I love my cars. I have 6. And I hate cities.
by leesalminen 7y ago
I love my cars. I have 6. And I hate cities.
- ahoy 7y agogreat, dont come to them!
- leesalminen 7y agoLike anyone goes to San Francisco by choice anymore. Gross.
- untog 7y agoWhat do you hope to gain by posting such obviously false posts?
- leesalminen 7y agoWhat’s obviously false?
- untog 7y agoPlenty of people go to SF by choice. Very obviously that's the case. Why try to assert otherwise? Just mindless trolling?
- addicted 7y ago“No one goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
- leesalminen 7y agoPeople are only there for work. Most will leave in 3-5 years.
- RC_ITR 7y agoAround the same time you’ll graduate elementary school then, huh?
- dang 7y agoPlease don't respond to a bad comment with a worse one. The HN guidelines explicitly ask you not to do that. Especially please don't go into personal attack. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 7y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly lately. If you'd please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- minikites 7y agoPlease explain why I should subsidize your unsustainable rural/suburban lifestyle.
- leesalminen 7y agoYou don’t have to subsidize me, bud. I paid my own money to get a well, get electricity service, no paved roads for miles. I actually can’t think of a government service I didn’t pay for!
- eropple 7y agoOf course you don't. That doesn't mean they don't exist but it is certainly believable that they are conveniently--so conveniently--outside your mental orbit. Who subsidized your electrical company's build-out of the long-haul transmission lines to get electricity out to you? Do the payers of those subsidies see an ROI from long-haul transmission lines to economically minimal areas? Ditto telco? Where do you buy groceries? Who disproportionately paid for all of the utilities and transportation necessary to make that work? How about delivery? Mail is hugely subsidized, particularly for rural routes, and commercial carriers use all those roads-'n-stuff to get to you. Your last mile, or even last miles, might be dirt--y'all certainly aren't paying proportionally for the highways to get even close enough. I grew up in rural areas. Lots of people sneered a lot about The Gubmint. And even in that weird epistemic closure not a one paid out what they took. Which is fine; that's how it's supposed to work, and there's an argument for some subsidy of rural living for a number of both moral and practical reasons. But leaving the disingenuity in the closet where it belongs and showing some basic respect for the process that allows it is at least polite.
- jokoon 7y agoisn't oil subsidized?
- zdragnar 7y agoCities are not self-sustaining. Virtually none of the resources needed to build, maintain or feed one actually come from the city itself.
- neuronic 7y agoSince you don't live in a city why did you feel the need to reply? It has nothing to do with you and your six cars. I love cars as well, it doesn't mean they should dominate areas where other alternatives make more sense in all aspects but subjective preference.