Re:The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet?
by magduf on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @03:52PM
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Most people in the Americas live in cities, and that number is constantly increasing with urbanization. With proper urban planning and funding, public transit in the US/Canada could be far better than it is, and a useful way of getting around. But there seems to be no political will to do this. Cities in Europe are far better laid out and planned, with mixed-use development (shops on the ground floor, apartments on top), but North America seems to be allergic to this and wants subdivisions with McMansions instead.
For example, I live in Canada and unless you life in the capital of the province everything is really far away.
A lot of people live in cheap apartment blocks of rural areas and it can be a walk of pretty much an hour to get to the groceries store. There is public transit but it's usually every few hours instead of a constant traffic, so you have to plan your entire day around it.
I do agree with your main point that public transit should be one of the main investment of a country.