Lessons learned from a failing local mall

Re:Lessons learned from a failing local mall by dahdum on Saturday April 28, 2018 @02:13PM (#16948835)

This comes across as rather patronizing, dense city centers are not only way people should live. You accept the trade offs of living in a dense city, but not everyone should be expected to feel the same way about the crime rates, poor schools, traffic, noise pollution, or SF style feces/needle filled streets.

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Re:Lessons learned from a failing local mall by icebraining on Saturday April 28, 2018 @02:30PM (#16948893)

I agree that not everyone should have to live in city centers, although that raises questions about the cost per capita of public services and who pays for them.

But I can assure you that high crime rates, poor schools and SF style feces/needle filled streets are not inevitable characteristics of dense cities. And as someone currently living in a small town with a lot of farm machinery, I can also assure you that noise pollution is unfortunately not exclusive to cities.

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Re:Lessons learned from a failing local mall by kadenshep on Saturday April 28, 2018 @02:37PM (#16948908)

>You accept the trade offs of living in a dense city, but not everyone should be expected to feel the same way about the crime rates, poor schools, traffic, noise pollution, or SF style feces/needle filled streets.

City centers shouldn't be expected to subsidize other people's ideal life styles. Crime rates and poor schools wouldn't be a problem if we took a fraction of the money we spend on infrastructure of suburbs and pointed it towards maintaining and improving city centers.

>or SF style feces/needle filled streets.

I'm sorry, what was that about patronizing? None of the characteristics you mentioned are inherit or even a common quality of city centers.

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