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Your heaven is my hell. > How awful to be "trapped" by having several hundred restaurants to choose from. I don't eat out - me and my family cook our own food

Your heaven is my hell. > How awful to be "trapped" by having several hundred restaurants to choose from. I don't eat out - me and my family cook our own food. It's cheaper and you know what you're eating. We also enjoy eating at home as a family, and having conversation as a family without umpteen other families or singletons/couples either overhearing or participating in their own conversations at the same time. > I'm so depressed by having a dozen museums, dozens of coffee shops, libraries, parks, and hundreds of entertainment options within a 15-minute walk of my house. So awful. Blinkered vision and sarcasm. Also, very selfishly subjective. Not everyone is like you. Not everyone wants to visit museums (I despise museums), go to coffee shops (see above), I don't visit even my local library. Sometimes it's suggested we go to some $entertainment_option and sometimes I'd like that but mostly having to mix with other people brings me out in hives - not due to being anti-social, but due to liking my peace and quiet (I don't like crowds). I'm in Scotland and prefer open spaces and spectacular mountain ranges to little artificial-landscape parks where the pod-dwellers walk to pretend they're in some kind of open and "green" space which is actually located in the middle of their dystopian metropolis. See, this is the problem with all the people who are proposing living in the pod in some metropolis somewhere - they're talking about their personal preference for such and haven't even considered either geographical location (which country outside of the USA, which part of said country, and so on) nor what _other people_ like to do, eat, or live with, or any number of additional factors. Everyone who is advocating/proselytising for the metro pod-life, needs to think outside of their particular box. Or pod.

reaperducer 5y ago
You keep saying that people are advocating for living in a "pod city." Nobody is. That sounds like some kind of anti-city marketing jargon that comes from the real estate industry, which makes money off of inefficient housing. I love nature. I lived in the desert for years, and really enjoyed it. But I also realize that people can do both: Enjoy living in a city, and enjoy nature. Disingenuous people try to paint a picture of apartment living as being "trapped" in a city. Which is simply a lie. People who live in cities can get in these things called "cars" (rentable by the hour, day, or week) and "trains" and go other places to enjoy nature. The difference between city living and country living, is that the city dwellers don't build their homes on top of nature, killing nature, forcing nature into smaller and smaller boundaries. We do the opposite: We put the people into a defined space so that the natural world can flourish. If you love nature, stop building houses on it.
- scarygliders 5y ago
  Most of the house building I've seen happening around where I live in Scotland, has been on brown field sites. My own house was built in 1885 and is a terraced cottage in an old coal mining town where mining stopped decades ago. You, are actually advocating I forego this for a pod/apartment in some shitty city somewhere. Have you seen Glasgow or Edinburgh? They're literal shitholes. Disingenuous people try to paint a picture that their pod living /isn't/ being trapped in a city. Which is simply a lie. These people are advocating for the WEF "you will own nothing, and you'll be happy" dystopia. To which I say "No."
  - timlod 5y ago
    As someone who's lived in Edinburgh, it's hard to take this seriously. Also, living there, you have access to beautiful nature in relatively little time.
    - scarygliders 5y ago
      A someone who continuously lives between Edinburgh and Glasgow, yer talking oot yer arse. Edinburgh is one of those places where it's a "nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there" - i.e. it has some tourist spots - and is getting worse due to lack of infrastructure maintenance let alone building new infrastructure. Glasgow has been turned into a literal shithole. Both thanks to 15 years of a Nationalist Socialist administration hell-bent on nothing but breaking up the UK therefore cares nothing for the people it governs and is one of the most corrupt governments in Western civilisation.
dahauns 5y ago
Holy Moly. Must be a nice view from that glass house of yours...

reaperducer 5y ago

You keep saying that people are advocating for living in a "pod city." Nobody is. That sounds like some kind of anti-city marketing jargon that comes from the real estate industry, which makes money off of inefficient housing. I love nature. I lived in the desert for years, and really enjoyed it. But I also realize that people can do both: Enjoy living in a city, and enjoy nature. Disingenuous people try to paint a picture of apartment living as being "trapped" in a city. Which is simply a lie. People who live in cities can get in these things called "cars" (rentable by the hour, day, or week) and "trains" and go other places to enjoy nature. The difference between city living and country living, is that the city dwellers don't build their homes on top of nature, killing nature, forcing nature into smaller and smaller boundaries. We do the opposite: We put the people into a defined space so that the natural world can flourish. If you love nature, stop building houses on it.

scarygliders 5y ago
Most of the house building I've seen happening around where I live in Scotland, has been on brown field sites. My own house was built in 1885 and is a terraced cottage in an old coal mining town where mining stopped decades ago. You, are actually advocating I forego this for a pod/apartment in some shitty city somewhere. Have you seen Glasgow or Edinburgh? They're literal shitholes. Disingenuous people try to paint a picture that their pod living /isn't/ being trapped in a city. Which is simply a lie. These people are advocating for the WEF "you will own nothing, and you'll be happy" dystopia. To which I say "No."
- timlod 5y ago
  As someone who's lived in Edinburgh, it's hard to take this seriously. Also, living there, you have access to beautiful nature in relatively little time.
  - scarygliders 5y ago
    A someone who continuously lives between Edinburgh and Glasgow, yer talking oot yer arse. Edinburgh is one of those places where it's a "nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there" - i.e. it has some tourist spots - and is getting worse due to lack of infrastructure maintenance let alone building new infrastructure. Glasgow has been turned into a literal shithole. Both thanks to 15 years of a Nationalist Socialist administration hell-bent on nothing but breaking up the UK therefore cares nothing for the people it governs and is one of the most corrupt governments in Western civilisation.

dahauns 5y ago

Holy Moly. Must be a nice view from that glass house of yours...