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Do you live in your car? Or do you pay (or did) for somewhere to live on top of that? Or is that also dramatically different from your experience too?
by goosedragons 4y ago
Do you live in your car? Or do you pay (or did) for somewhere to live on top of that? Or is that also dramatically different from your experience too?
- andrewmcwatters 4y agoI'll take that as a "yes." No, I own a home in a major metro. Believe it or not, I can bike to get groceries, but that's uncommon. Most people generally choose not to. They still have a choice here. In a 10-minute walk you have 3 grocery stores. In a 10-minute drive, I have 30 to choose from with specialty stores I haven't even gotten around to exploring yet. There's no comparison whatsoever. You generally don't own a home in a "car-free" city.
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- goosedragons 4y agoWhy do you think "car-free" cities are homeless? My neighborhood has apartment buildings obviously, but it also has some single family homes and condos which can be bought and owned. Obviously a single family home there is more expensive than one a 40 minute drive out but it's actually still less expensive than a suburb of Toronto or Vancouver. Car-free doesn't just mean just skyscrapers. It just means not-shit design centered around metal boxes instead of people.
- matchbok 4y agoA 10 minute drive is not comparable to a 10 minute walk in any way. Not sure where you are getting at with the specialty store thing - the nicest stores are always in cities, either a walk/bus/metro ride away. People in cities do more than ... walk to places. :) What it really comes down to is this: a preference to live/work/etc in and around big-box parking lots and highways (where 70% of the land is parking), or to do the same in walkable neighborhoods with minimal parking (space replaced with more cool stuff).