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> is that it insulates you from the pollution you bring with your car to the place you go This is a citation needed comment to me. It's one heck of an assertio
by falcolas 3y ago
> is that it insulates you from the pollution you bring with your car to the place you go
This is a citation needed comment to me. It's one heck of an assertion that I have never heard. Most folks I've chatted with who have made this transition do it because of the density of people, not the pollution (which is miles better in cities than it was even 20 years ago).
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- fowkswe 3y agoDoes this need a citation? The car is the thing that brings the pollution. You live in the burbs, you drive the car, you pollute. You live in the city, you walk/bike/transit, you pollute less.
- mym1990 3y agoI have lived in quite a few cities in the US, and people who live in the city are still driving a majority of the time. There are not that many US cities that have the appropriate biking and transit capabilities to match their size.
- replygirl 3y ago> A big part of wanting to live in a big house far away from the place you go is
- School-Cotton 3y agoThe part that needs a citation is not "cars make pollution" but rather "pollution is the main reason people want to move to the suburbs".
- ebiester 3y agoThe citation needed is that anyone takes a car to avoid car pollution.
- fvdessen 3y agoI used to think like that, but the city I live in has regular no car days that made me change my mind. The first and biggest pollution is the noise. The ambient car noise has a huge effect on stress level and sleep quality. When you remove the car from the city, it's almost at silent as the countryside. The second is the danger in the street. Your brain registers those big fast moving cars as potential danger to avoid and raises your stress level and makes you want to move away from it. The third one is the space the car take. When you remove the cars you have the opportunity to either make things easier to walk to, or to add parks and greenery. When you remove cars, modern cities are surprisingly empty, much less dense than a village. Then there's the air pollution.
- bbatha 3y ago> When you remove the car from the city, it's almost at silent as the countryside. What do you plan on doing about emergency vehicles and their sirens and construction? Those are by far the biggest sources of noise for me in a city. Normal car traffic is omnipresent but usually has a fairly low ceiling that doesn't go through walls all that much.
- fvdessen 3y agoEmergency vehicles sirens only need to be loud because they have to be heard by other drivers in their cars, which are sound proofed to not hear their own noise. Normal car traffic absolutely goes through walls, you think you are used to it, but it actually stresses you quite a lot. Construction work can be an issue indeed
- digging 3y ago> Construction work can be an issue indeed As it is in suburbs too. My parents' house is fairly quiet, until a neighbor is hammering or sawing. And that doesn't even include the loud insanity of lawn mowing in the desert.
- pandaman 3y agoJudging by you mentioning "no car days" you don't live in the US. American cars are very quiet at the city speed. Americans, on the other hand, are not quiet at all. Especially when they are moving by foot in a walkable neighborhood with drinking establishments.
- ryandrake 3y agoThat’s right. I moved to a single family home in the boonies because I want to be insulated from people, not pollution. I don’t want to constantly hear my neighbor’s music or their fucking at 4 in the morning. I don’t want to smell their awful food. I don’t want to be part of their domestic drama when their ex-boyfriend stomps up out shared stairs, angry. I don’t want them up in my business whenever I do something right outside my home. I want to see them occasionally, waving from a great distance.
- mock-possum 3y agoI'm with you, I want a big house so I can get away from people, not so I can get away from pollution.