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by jseban 5y ago
It's sort of viable, but you'd have to spend 2-3 years living in overpriced temporary sublets while trying to save up to that deposit, and still it just supports the original comment which was that you could only afford 2 bedrooms
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah same in other big cities, it just shows how incredibly impractical it is to do grocery shopping without a car, and what big demand there is to get rid of this annoying chore. I think it's great! The solution is not walking and cyc
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by jseban 5y ago
No, I want as much free time and energy as possible, and don't want to waste my life carrying water in buckets when I can have a tap. Likewise I also don't want to waste any time carrying milk either
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by jseban 5y ago
The key here being housing in cities and I would also add in nice neighborhoods, in cities. You can still expand the city, and build more cities. For practical matters, land is not finite. Food and consumer staples are similarly finite if
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by jseban 5y ago
> The problem is cultural. You see, motorised traffic wins by default, unless there are strict rules to stop that happening. It's not cultural, motorized traffic wins because it's more powerful. > Right now a child is being
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by jseban 5y ago
Yep, and commonly also a loan from parents for downpayment to buy.
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by jseban 5y ago
Probably only the old parts, turn of the century apartment buildings. Construction from the 50-70s looks like communist dystopia even in western europe, and newly constructed buildings are also not at all ornamented or colorful
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by jseban 5y ago
From what I hear, salaries in some eastern european countries, like Romania, are higher than western europe, in local purchasing power.
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by jseban 5y ago
Car traffic is still prioritised, the new slussen is still an 8 lane highway right through the middle of the city, and the biggest reason it's downsized is that the ring road is now finished. And the biggest reason why Stockholm is man
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah it's just transport and travel that naturally outgrows the pace of walking and cycling, it's just technological progress.
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by jseban 5y ago
I also like a bit of randomness and don't live an absolutely regimented existence, my point is just that people should be free to choose this randomness in their own space and time, and we should not force a particular way of randomnes
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by jseban 5y ago
No because you only have to take the car once a week, and you have to walk 3 times per week. If you want to force physical exercise by inefficiency like that, what exactly are the machines that should be forbidden and which should be allowe
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by jseban 5y ago
Renting is basically already restricted to government policy in Stockholm, and the result is 15 years waiting time to get a flat.
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by jseban 5y ago
Society is about efficiency. Social interactions are voluntarily and can be organised around any random activity such as games, sports, hobbies etc. It's really inflexible and incredibly limiting to force inefficiency of transport, bec
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by jseban 5y ago
So you mean it works if you assume that all the heavy stuff you "already have" somehow. Ok, not exactly convinced..
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah but people should be free to use whatever form of physical exercise that they want. Should we never do any sports anymore and instead just force everyone to do inefficient transportation? That's just making life so much more poor.
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by jseban 5y ago
How can you argue against the reality that it's better to use a car or delivery for 20 kg, than to carry it when walking. And since it's already delivered by a truck, why walk the last bit it's pointless. It's just a mid
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah but why do you want to turn back time to a village and make things less efficient, what's the point of pretending to be poor. Americans are the friendliest people in the world and they drive the most, the more people cycle and wal
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by jseban 5y ago
Three days of ingredients is a lot, with your toilet paper and laundry detergent and everything, this breaks down immediately if you're only two people. So if you are a couple then both of you have to go shopping, that's twice the
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by jseban 5y ago
> We bike rather than just walk everywhere, and generally people do more frequent small shops rather than big weekly shop. It takes some imagination and a lot of urban planning work, but quality of life improves dramatically, it’s life-c
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah, but my point is that the things everyone must do should be made as efficient as possible, so that everyone is free to choose how they want to waste their time. We shouldn't force anyone to spend their time and effort in a speci
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by jseban 5y ago
Yes but it's an incredibly strenuous and unnecessarily hard way of life, if that's what you want, fine, but society at large has as a core value to eliminate unnecessary, hard, repetitive tasks so that's not going to be a goo
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah but now you are optimising for the minority case at the expense of making the most common case worse.
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by jseban 5y ago
Haha carrying 20kg of stuff back home in bags, that's ridiculous! Yeah do that after a long day of work, and also you can forget ever having any energy left for doing any sport because now your only sport ever is carrying groceries. Wh
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah this is what I do, and I think it's great! But it relies on there being a driveable street outside of the house, and not a stupid walk path.
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah and if you stopped doing that and instead used a car to buy your groceries or ordered them delivered to your doorstep, you would have more free time and more energy. People want free time and energy. Just because it "works" f
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by jseban 5y ago
I grew up in such a properly built out environment, and I just think it's a complete waste of time and effort to insist on such inefficient and inconvenient modes of transportation, and I hate wasting time and effort on recurring daily
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by jseban 5y ago
> I can bike or walk everywhere, and the only reason I have a car is that it makes grocery shopping much, much easier. Yes, you still want a car for such things, sure it's quaint and nice to have a "walkable" neighborhood,
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by jseban 5y ago
In what company are management not leading
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by jseban 5y ago
> Stand ups are not as much for developers as much as they are for transparency. Except the requirements for transparency is only for the developers, which makes it feel very degrading, all of the other people in this meeting, the leads,

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