Re:We can do better than “same, but electric”
by reaperducer on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @09:41AM
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I hate this dystopia you people envision of living packed like sardines in a can.
I've lived in both (most recently moved out of a house about a year ago and into an apartment), and prefer apartments for a lot of reasons of reasons too numerous to list here.
I wouldn't bike, either. Distances are too long
Well, duh. You just said that you chose to live in a rural area. No kidding distances are too long. That was your choice. But if you live in a city, they're not. Because of my jobs, I've gone back-and-forth between city life and rural/suburban life several times. Every time I move back to a city, I'm so happy to sell my cars and not have a car payment; or pay for car insurance; pay for gas; oil changes (which are expensive now); worrying about it getting dinged, scratched, stolen, or crashed into. Cars were fun when I was a teen-ager. But I'm an adult now, and have better things to do with my life and money.
A lot more people think like me.
Because real estate agents, real estate developers, and construction companies spend billions on advertising to make people think that way. Congratulations, they've successfully implanted all these fears into your mind, and you fell for them.
We didn't work so we could move back into cities and live like broke 25 year olds.
Older, wealthier, people tend to move into cities because the benefits of city living outweigh the hassles and expense of living in the suburbs.
Chicago's Lake Shore Drive isn't lined with apartment buildings with students "packed like sardines." They're filled with $5-$20 million condos inhabited by bankers, lawyers, and the people who own the companies that the people who live in the suburbs work for.
I've lived in both (most recently moved out of a house about a year ago and into an apartment), and prefer apartments for a lot of reasons of reasons too numerous to list here.
I wouldn't bike, either. Distances are too long
Well, duh. You just said that you chose to live in a rural area. No kidding distances are too long. That was your choice. But if you live in a city, they're not. Because of my jobs, I've gone back-and-forth between city life and rural/suburban life several times. Every time I move back to a city, I'm so happy to sell my cars and not have a car payment; or pay for car insurance; pay for gas; oil changes (which are expensive now); worrying about it getting dinged, scratched, stolen, or crashed into. Cars were fun when I was a teen-ager. But I'm an adult now, and have better things to do with my life and money.
A lot more people think like me.
Because real estate agents, real estate developers, and construction companies spend billions on advertising to make people think that way. Congratulations, they've successfully implanted all these fears into your mind, and you fell for them.
We didn't work so we could move back into cities and live like broke 25 year olds.
Older, wealthier, people tend to move into cities because the benefits of city living outweigh the hassles and expense of living in the suburbs.
Chicago's Lake Shore Drive isn't lined with apartment buildings with students "packed like sardines." They're filled with $5-$20 million condos inhabited by bankers, lawyers, and the people who own the companies that the people who live in the suburbs work for.