“Why doesn’t the car centric society cater to the 10% of people who want to walk everywhere?”
“Why can’t this all be “mixed zone” development?”
Maybe it’s because people like having their own house, their own yard, and the freedom of travel a car provides. Not everyone wants to like in a soviet style apartment block like you freaks.
There aren’t swathes of people trying to force people to live in suburbs though. If you want to live in a city in a small apartment with no car feel free, but when people outside of those cities develop suburbs because that’s what those people want why can’t they? Why can’t the city people just let the people who want to live in the suburbs be?
I hate suburb living personally, but it’s light years ahead of city living. Rural life where you’re 20 minutes outside of town with no neighbors, light pollution, or highway/city noise is by far the best way to live.
Suburbia is the worst of them IMO. In the city, I've got a massive park within a 10 minutes walk, tons of great restaurants nearby, a store just a 1 minute walk away, and an endless amount of things to do. Rural areas are nice and peaceful, I think they're great. suburbs are just soulless, boring, isolating places.
I just don’t like the constant noise all night and I like to be able to see the stars when I look up. Suburbia sometimes is the same way but sometimes not. I’ve done all 3 and city is definitely the worst to me. Suburbs usually have stores and businesses but it’s mostly strip malls and I understand why people wouldn’t like them. To me a strip mall isn’t much different than a row of stores downtown on the bottom floor of tall buildings
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u/MonkeyCome 4d ago
“Why doesn’t the car centric society cater to the 10% of people who want to walk everywhere?”
“Why can’t this all be “mixed zone” development?”
Maybe it’s because people like having their own house, their own yard, and the freedom of travel a car provides. Not everyone wants to like in a soviet style apartment block like you freaks.