The attractiveness of the American suburban compromise is just an accident of American policy choices, and that suburban compromise has major downsides that we’

The attractiveness of the American suburban compromise is just an accident of American policy choices, and that suburban compromise has major downsides that we’ve been frog-boiled into accepting (see TFA). Different policies would make urban living much more attractive than suburbs, as is the case in much of the rest of the developed world. So when you say “better”… yeah, fine, if we’re going to refuse to govern constructively and responsibly, yes, suburbs are probably a better choice in that landscape.