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Re:The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure by Mz on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:32PM (#14455252)
They have right to choose to limit their standard of living, as you have done, and move to an urban core and be completely dependent on transit for transportation.

This is dismissive, insulting of my preference to live without a car and rather hostile. If you were intending to say that you support my right to choose, you failed to communicate that. It came across as contemptuous and is in no way sympathetic to the fact that walkable neighborhoods and public transit are not hostile to drivers the way the current car centric American landscape is hostile to pedestrians.

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Re:The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure by primeblue on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:35PM (#14456122)
Only a minority of the country lives without children where a car is necessary. And who's rich enough to live in an urban centre with 2 children? More importantly who would!
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Re:The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure by shados on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @07:41PM (#14456789)
I wish. Then I wouldn't get woken up by little brats every Saturday morning. I live in one of the densest, most expensive neighborhood in the US outside of SF, and there's still a bazillion little kids and screaming babies all over the place living in lofts with no green area in sight, and even though the nearby schools are terrible.
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