What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars

Re:What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars by whatshisface on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:30PM (#18780351)

I don't see how living in the suburbs makes you super-wealthy. In most American cities that I know of, the very poor live in the city, the middle class lives in the suburbs, and the very rich live in top-floor penthouses and wherever else they want. Roads, cars and long commutes are very much a middle-class thing, because the poor can't afford all the driving and the rich can buy a great house in the middle of the city where it would be the most expensive.

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Re:What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars by Touche on Sunday December 30, 2018 @12:49PM (#18790337)

I got a lot of downvotes and it's because I didn't direct my comment well enough, this is who I was referring to as the superwealthy:

> people who are a block away from every place they need to go.

I don't know of any city in the U.S. where a middle class person can live within walking distance of everything that they need. Take a look at the most urban cities in the U.S., San Francisco, New York, Boston. You're not living in a walkable place in those cities unless you have a title that includes "executive" or "vice" in it.

The closest is probably Chicago.

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