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A millennium ago cities were overcrowded, smelly, dangerous, disease-infested slums with no plumbing or electricity. People living in the country were much bett
by chongli 5y ago
A millennium ago cities were overcrowded, smelly, dangerous, disease-infested slums with no plumbing or electricity. People living in the country were much better off, even if they were peasants who had to pay extortionate shares of their crop to the local lord.
- adrianN 5y agoAnd somehow even people in the countryside had no cars. I don't see your point.
- chongli 5y agoThe point is that now we have cars and we have lots of space to grow and people don’t want to huddle together, so we don’t. Furthermore, people like trees and fresh air and natural spaces. You won’t find any of that in dense urban areas. The best you can hope for is a couple of trees lining the sidewalks and a park here or there.
- adrianN 5y agoYou can "not huddle together" without moving the necessities of daily live twenty miles away and only connect them with a six lane highway to were people live.
- decafninja 5y agoThey had horses, mules, donkeys, and oxen.
- adrianN 5y agoHow many miles per day do you think they traveled using those?