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> And people like that lifestyle, they like their individual, huge cars and huge (relatively) houses and huge parking lots and huge roads and huge food and drin
by sofixa 4y ago
> And people like that lifestyle, they like their individual, huge cars and huge (relatively) houses and huge parking lots and huge roads and huge food and drink portions.
Do they like it or have they simply never had any choice in the matter and have never experienced anything else? The extremely high housing prices in the few dense walkable places seems to imply there is more demand than supply for such developments, so at least some prefer them.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoSure, some of them. But nowhere near the critical mass of voters needed to redirect entire infrastructure budgets away from prioritizing cars and large indoor spaces, to prioritizing public transit/walking/cycling and denser living. And this transition would take decades and cause a lot of pain in that time for eventual benefits the voting populace will never see, so it is a nonstarter.
- midoridensha 4y agoSome of them, but not nearly enough as you point out, plus it's really hard politically to get people to want to change to a different lifestyle. I left the US partly because I wanted to live a walkable lifestyle and the very few places in the US that offered that were too unaffordable (and had many other problems, such as the shitty healthcare system).