We must live in very different places. I patronise the public spaces everywhere I go, and what you describe is highly atypical. Unless of course you treat publ

We must live in very different places. I patronise the public spaces everywhere I go, and what you describe is highly atypical. Unless of course you treat public spaces like Americans treat buses. If it becomes a miserable experience only the destitute would use, those who can will avoid it, and those who can't will perpetuate it. But where I live everyone uses public spaces. The wealthy don't retreat to private backyards.