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I'm really sick of city-dwellers telling the rest of us how to live. Yes, many city-dwellers can live without a car. But not everyone lives in a city, or has a
by bluescrn 4y ago
I'm really sick of city-dwellers telling the rest of us how to live.
Yes, many city-dwellers can live without a car. But not everyone lives in a city, or has any desire to live in a city (especially during a time of decline and perpetual crisis of one form or another)
Those who wage such vitriolic war on the car rarely consider small towns and rural areas, where public transport isn't efficient/practical, where no car often means no job.
- kyawzazaw 4y agoisn't it about "cities" and "urban design" though? so does not apply elsewhere. Not sure why you are feeling this way in this thread.
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- dylan-m 4y agoLiving outside a city doesn't mean you get to roar through it in your SUV and park a step away from your destination. A city has a lot of important services, but it is also a place where people live, and those people get to make choices that put their community first. But while we're on the topic of rural areas having terrible public transportation, I think that's a really important one. Switzerland has a smaller rural-urban divide (which is really where this whole "war on cars" thing comes in), in part because it is actually practical to move between rural and urban spaces on a regular basis. That isn't because the cities are more driveable, or because they build a highway through Bern: it's because they invested in public transit that actually works. This kind of talk benefits everyone.
- lotsoweiners 4y agoLiving in a city doesn't mean you should try to get suburban workers back in the office to sustain your city.