You’d have to fix a lot more than housing and transportation. You’d also have to address crime, mental health, drugs, and public disorder. Living within walking

You’d have to fix a lot more than housing and transportation. You’d also have to address crime, mental health, drugs, and public disorder. Living within walking distance of the office is nice. Having to dodge needles, human feces, psychotics, and periodic rioting is not. I used to be an urbanist, too. Lived in Seattle and didn’t own a car for many years. But there are some real problems in our cities, and virtually no urbanists are serious about solving them. In fact, many will make fun of you for bringing them up. (Not that it’s easy to tell given the equal lack of progress on housing and transportation.) Politics is a grotesque dance between the demagogues and the mob. A sane human being’s best interest is probably to just avoid being stepped on. But it’s not all bad. The commute between the bedroom and the home office is pretty great.