If you’re required to have a truck to work you should probably be using one owned by your employer or written off as a business expense if you’re self-employed.

All I have to say about the first part is the cope is off the fucking charts 📈

Please, let’s not get caught up on semantics. If cars are your hobby, that’s perfectly fine, that’s not what I’m talking about. It’s not a zero-sum game.

It’s different when every single person has no other option but to own a car and have the physical ability to drive or else be completely reliant on someone who does in order to provide for themselves. You don’t work and you don’t eat without a car, and society treats that like a moral failing. Kids don’t go anywhere without (likely white collar) parents chauffeuring them. Elders don’t get groceries without home care assistance. That is the car culture I’m talking about. I don’t give a shit about your hobby tbqh, do whatever the hell you want in your free time.

I personally abhor owning a car. I hate fueling it, I hate paying for it, i hate maintaining it, I don’t want it. I hate sitting in traffic, I hate the stress of risking my life to get from a to b, I hate missing out on the exercise and fresh air I would get by walking if at least the streets were designed to accommodate me as a pedestrian. I have to own a car to get to work because my work is both a massive complex that I couldn’t walk or bike to even if I lived right outside of it, and the immediate area is exclusively million-dollar homes each with tens of acres to the property. Not just my work, even the community I live in is impossible to traverse without a car. Half the streets don’t even have sidewalks or convenient crosswalks. The streets that do are only designed that way to get kids to school and nowhere else. I can’t afford to live somewhere walkable because those homes are low-supply and high-demand and therefore pretty costly.

So speak for yourself.

You’ve never heard of white flight? Redlining? The black neighborhoods that were paved over in cities to create highway interchanges smack in the middle of them, enabling whites to flee to redlined neighborhoods newly built with government subsidies, into homes bought with VA loans that weren’t offered to blacks? The highways dividing white neighborhoods from black neighborhoods in cities to this day? Reliable transportation and all the things it enables being locked down just to those who can individually provide it for themselves, after black people were discriminated against and locked out of wealth for decades? Other community amenities, like schools and libraries and community centers, being funded by property taxes and therefore drastically lower quality or completely non-existent in lower-income neighborhoods (where blacks have been pushed to) that can be completely ignored by the wealthy because they are now a problem that is over there in a different area code than theirs? All of this taking place in the era of the southern strategy, where lawmakers refrain from using the N-word or stating their goals outright, but the intention and outcome is “blacks get hurt worse than whites”.

It was re-segregation under the guise of “progress” in a deeply racist society that collectively shit their pants because blacks were finally catching up, developing things like black wall streets and thriving, prosperous communities (that were first on the chopping block when they wanted to level things for a highway) and black businesses, and using their collective voice to fight back after centuries of injustice. Detroit, Atlanta, St. Louis, Chicago, these cities were all fucking powerhouses with high percentages of black population for their times, that were destroyed by suburbanization and the construction of highways and the physical division they created.

Yeah, save it. You can disagree, you’re entitled to your opinion, but you would be deeply mistaken.

Maybe we could build more rail and reform the existing rail infrastructure instead of doubling down on inefficient and dangerous infrastructure that is both destroying our planet and atomizing our societies… ?

Wouldn’t you know it, car culture, roads, and suburbs were designed for the same exact reason and perpetuate the same bias to this day- looks like we have a common cause! The answer, however, is not creating an even more antisocial society or abandoning society altogether. Quite the opposite, actually.

I’m perfectly happy living without those things. Especially if it means my neighbor’s stupid Jacuzzi tub isn’t going to cause mold in the building or come hurdling down through my ceiling.

If I don’t like my condo, I’ll sell it and buy a better one, as there are improvements that I did which didn’t involve changing walls or electrical (which you can do with board approval if you really want to), like updating the kitchen and bathrooms and floors, and therefore it has most likely appreciated in value since I bought it. I have exclusive rights to the proceeds from the sale because I own it and I really have never had any urge do anything stupid that would piss off the HOA (re: my neighbors) because I’m a decent person and considerate of others. The community is worth that small sacrifice of not being an asshole.

But ultimately, I’m not owning it as an investment vehicle. I’m owning it to live in and to keep my money in my own name instead of putting it into some landlord’s pocket.

Demolition will not be necessary because I don’t care about the land underneath it, I care about the building itself.

The internet is perfectly good and if it’s not, my neighbors will probably agree, and we can vote to change providers because we are all voting members of the HOA, but ideally that would be something provided by the city as it doesn’t really make sense to run multiple lines for multiple providers in a dense urban setting. In that case, the whole city gets to vote! I have up to 600mbps fiber optic in my current complex, though, so I don’t think that will really be necessary.

I’m sure you’ll find a problem with that, but you’re way out in the country and don’t like cities anyways, so catering to you would probably not be very healthy for the city.

Can I haz walkable city now?

An HOA in a neighborhood of single family homes can do the same thing.

Isn’t the whole idea that you dislike people being annoying? The point of that legislation is to remove people who are being egregiously annoying by breaking the rules of the HOA…

It’s designed specifically for people like you!!!

With all due respect - just read the article you dense motherfucker :)

If that’s what you want to believe then I will not be the one to stop you :)

Nobody is talking about land, they’re talking about housing. Nobody thought they owned the land underneath a condo, and frankly you’re the idiot for assuming as much.

American builders and real estate investors cannot comprehend this one simple trick.

there are people who don’t like constantly being around other people

Do you think there’s a chance that catering towards anti-social attitudes is actually a bad thing for society, and that kind of thing might itself be the reason you so strongly feel this way about other people that you would come here and tell us we’re not allowed to reorganize cities thus that they allow us to be near people?

We get it, you don’t like cities. Nobody is telling you that you have to live in a city. But our cities should not be designed to cater to people who don’t like cities.

This should answer your questions: Not Just Bikes - Suburbia is Subsidized: Here’s the Math [STO7]

Better yet, just watch the whole playlist: Not Just Bikes - Strong Towns Playlist

We’re a population of people who - when we want something done - we do it now. Delays are unacceptable.

Believe it or not, this is actually a product of cars.

Man remember when jobs let your sick days roll over at the end of the year…

Assuming your coworker’s are a holdover from an old contract. But I’ve yet to talk about it with anyone whose sick days weren’t use-it-or-lose-it.

Lmao no cars around here will still form miles long line ups because they all think it’s an asshole move to skip the traffic, somehow not realizing that it wouldn’t be possible to do that if they just utilized both lanes until the merge.

Given lawmakers that understand how the internet works, I think it would be. To me this isn’t any different than a handful of years back when ISPs were throttling websites to give an advantage to the certain ones that paid them to work faster.

[citation needed]

Considering what these presidents were doing politically when they were assassinated for their politics, this sounds like a mighty convenient narrative for a dogmatically anti-communist state to feed to the populace after the fact.

Can’t. The cab needed enough room to put the family so you know where they are without having to mow them down first.

We are actively being held back by companies catering exclusively to the lowest common denominator.