I just got back to the US from japan and now I’m super depressed that I have to drive 14 minutes to the nearest grocery store… Which is Walmart.
That’s the exact reason I’m holding onto my (not so great) job in Germany. Going back to the US is incredibly unpalatable. I LOVE living in a modern city where I can actually walk to errands. It’s wonderful.
But, but, 15 minute cities are fascism!
I know. It comes in about 300 variations from the 50 cafes within a 5 minute walk from my apartment.
Does your city have suburbs/exurbs as well, or is the urban center surrounded by farmland?
Thats why I live in a US city and not the suburbs, totally doable
Yeah doable if u can afford to spend 5k monthly on rent alone lol
lol, yea thats what we all pay in rent, holy fuck dude
In like, 2 or 3 major US cities maybe, and even then you’re still having to deal with abysmal, anti-pedestrian infrastructure.
The rest of the country it is incredibly dangerous and sprawled out to the point that walkability is infeasible.
And this is all assuming someone can even remotely afford to live within city limits with how prohibitively expensive CoL is getting
You just proved why cities are better than suburbs
Yes, cities are massively better than suburbs. I never denied this.
Still doesn’t change the fact that living within the city is becoming increasingly prohibitive due to capitalist greed nor that, even if they are better than suburbs, the cities within the US are massively lacking in pedestrian focused infrastructure.
Then the suburbs are even worse off, you make no sense.
My point never disagreed with the fact that the suburbs were worse off than cities. Just because the suburbs are worse than the cities in the US doesn’t discount that the cities are still lacking in pedestrian infrastructure and that walkability is something that is few and far between in the US, even among its cities, nor that being able to live in the city is a privilege that is only available to those who can afford such a luxury.
So the claim that “it is doable” is shortsighted. For the vast majority in the US it most certainly is not “doable” due to systemic forces beyond their immediate control.
And the insinuation that it is equivalent to an experience to living abroad in places with far better pedestrian infrastructure, such as Japan and Germany like the users above, and not an objective downgrade is absurd as well. You can live in a US city and it would still be leagues worse than those in the countries mentioned; so it isn’t doable to have an equivalent experience in that regard either.
Your claim that it is “totally doable” is what makes no sense.
Drive up the cost of energy enough and those suburbs will be abandoned as more people move into cities.
Yes, suburbs abandoned for cities that are entirely built around car-centric infrastructure.
The walkability of the US is abysmal everywhere except for maybe a handful of major metropolitan areas, and even then those are lacking.
Also, assuming that people can even afford to live within the city if they can’t even afford to live in the suburbs of that city. More likely people will be pushed out to rural towns with lower CoL and become even more isolated and thus car dependent
You can easily tell from the propaganda what they want: they want us isolated, fearful and dependent on fossil fuels.
Getting the fossil-fuel monkey off our collective backs will not only improve our health and quality of life, it’ll also drive dictators and despots out in several countries. In particular, it’ll destroy the revenue stream that funds Russia’s imperialism. It’ll also make those AI data centers non-viable, making it harder for our own local oligarchs to oppress us.
Getting the fossil-fuel monkey off our collective backs will not only improve our health and quality of life,
Since US and Iran negotiations are not progressing we could be looking at total collapse of transportation. I can imagine transition to post-fossil-fuel transportation in Europe. Public transportation is already there, a lot of it based on electricity like Metro, trams, trains and electric buses. They will most likely mandate working from home and other than commuting everything is walking distance away for a lot people. In US thought? You can’t build such system in a matter of weeks or months. A lot of people will be fucked.
On the bright side, reality is finally catching up to the other half of the USA. Because of car centric infrastructure, the consequence of big orange’s actions will finally reach the people who need to feel it the most.
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