I could have added more context to my initial comment. I meant to convey that the Strong Towns movement has a much steeper uphill battle than I realized when I was younger and living in high density settings, not that it was wrong outright.

Totally fair. And all I really meant to say is that it’s not about what “lifestyle” people live, it’s about the economics and whether we can sustain this. I get a little frustrated when people dismiss the Strong Towns ideas as being “anti single-family homes,” which is not the case and missing the point. I’m sure that frustration contributed to my reply being snarky when it didn’t need to be. Sorry again.

Appreciated!

Btw, one little-understood aspect of this is how much of the problem is created by upvoters. A comment like the GP reads very differently when it is upvoted to the top of the thread than when it's floating somewhere in the middle. I've occasionally had this happen to my own posts in the past (not so much with the dang account, but an older one) and was shocked to see how my own comment came across in a way that I hadn't intended.

The onus is still on commenters to omit things that can come across that way, but the problems in threads are at least as much caused by upvoters. It's a co-creation, and the worse outcomes are usually not one that any individual intends.