• moitoi@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    It never was a need. This is a myth build by the car manufacturers. They lobbied for the car centered model with oil companies. This never was the model.

    The same applies for suburbs full of houses.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not going down that slope.

      As someone who has lived in a large city, with a fully functional public transportation system, I was thankful for it, although it took me 2 extra hours of my life every day.

      But living in a city, packed and stacked like merchandise in shelves is not a good way to live.

      I got out the first opportunity I could take. Cost me family, friends and lower income but I don’t regret it.

      Metropolises are not the way for civilization and CoViD was a cruel demononstration of how flawed the concept is.

      That is all I have to say.

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          1 year ago

          I wasn’t happy, I did my part to solve my problem.

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              1 year ago

              Smaller cities, in the 10-15k range, have an added benefit: large enough to have large scale industry, small enough for people to know each other. Creates more security, as you tend to know if one face or another is new.