The first time you go to a city that has incredible public transportation you will have a very transformative experience. Go spend a month in Seoul or Taipei.

The first time you go to a city that has incredible public transportation you will have a very transformative experience. Go spend a month in Seoul or Taipei. Cars are poison. They poison walk-ability, they poison commuting, they damage health from their exhaust, deprivation of walking, and crashes, they require attention to operate and thus literally steal your life hours. Cars require parking and parking spaces. Cars require wide roads which reduces density. Cars require surface level roads. Cars create traffic. Cars spit in the face of economies of scale. When I lived in the center of a city, I could run my finger across my window seal and it would come up black from all the car exhaust that had settled on it. That is going into our lungs. Structuring the operations of life around cars is insane. Density is a policy choice.