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It only feels that way because your state mandates everyone buy single-family homes with giant setbacks for lawns that aren't even ecologically compatible with
by kmeisthax 3y ago
It only feels that way because your state mandates everyone buy single-family homes with giant setbacks for lawns that aren't even ecologically compatible with the natural climate of the state. And also that NIMBYs terrorize every possible project to fix this with spurious environmental review lawsuits, and then go on to use the same laws to shut down clean energy projects they don't like.
- recursive 3y agoI don't disagree. Perhaps people are voting with their feet.
- ImJamal 3y ago>It only feels that way because your state mandates everyone buy single-family homes I'm not sure that is the case. If everybody lived in apartments then there would be more people in your area which would lead to you seeing more people along with worse traffic. People who live in areas with like 5 people per square mile don't complain about there being too many people around them because nobody is around them.
- ben_w 3y ago> If everybody lived in apartments then there would be more people in your area which would lead to you seeing more people along with worse traffic. To an extent, though the sensation of crowding can also diverge from the actual population density depending on how the city planners organise things. Berlin feels much more open and chill than places in the US; even the Mitte district whose population density is 9,600/km^2 and which is only a bit less than the 11,313.8/km^2 of NYC[0] and quite a bit more than the 7,193.3/km^2 of SF. [0] whole thing not just Manhattan which is 28,154/km^2