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You're getting at the core issue with this discussion: cities are by their very nature high density living situations. It's no coincidence that congested citie
by betwixthewires 5y ago
You're getting at the core issue with this discussion: cities are by their very nature high density living situations.
It's no coincidence that congested cities are looking for ways to build higher density housing. There are just too many people to manage the logistics of a city that is built horizontally rather than vertically.
What it really comes down to is, do you want to live in a city or not? Cities are going to be densely packed. I personally do not want to live in shared housing and ride a train or bus, sit in traffic and hang out in free public spaces and the like either, so I don't live in a city. But people that choose to live in them really ought not complain about the facts of life of living in a city, specifically, that people are packed together like sardines.
- nitrogen 5y agoBut people that choose to live in them really ought not complain about the facts of life of living in a city, specifically, that people are packed together like sardines. What happens in most of these HN threads is that people who live in cities start telling people who don't want to live in cities that they have no choice in the matter, and that they're coming to destroy their town next.
- betwixthewires 5y agoYeah I see some of that. People that live in cities tend to think the whole world is like that, people that live in rural areas tend to do the same, hence city people tend to think the world is a Malthusian disaster and rural people don't believe in climate change, as examples. It's a cultural divide because people are largely the product of their environments.