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Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by eastbound on Sunday July 16, 2023 @10:02AM (#36747115)
As soon as people have a house, they will have a car. Be realist. Building without parking space means they’ll invade the street parking.

On the other hand, I know places where companies can’t rent a house, they must stick to commercial-zoned areas. THAT’s enforcing the 10km-every-morning-to-go-to-work rule.

But again, suburbia is a pleasant lifestyle, we wouldn’t have to ruin landscapes if we could live downtown, but you guys make it horrible (Oh, hi Grégory Doucet). Sometimes intolerance bears a cost.

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Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by sgu999 on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:00AM (#36756063)
> As soon as people have a house, they will have a car. Be realist.

You don't even need to go to Japan or the Netherlands to understand that this is not true, you just need to spend a bit of time on YouTube: I recommend "Life where I'm from" for the former, and "Not just bikes" for the later.

> But again, suburbia is a pleasant lifestyle, we wouldn’t have to ruin landscapes if we could live downtown, but you guys make it horrible (Oh, hi Grégory Doucet). Sometimes intolerance bears a cost.

I don't think anyone is arguing about whether it's pleasant or not. I personally hate this lifestyle even though that's where I grew up, but that's irrelevant, the only thing that matters is that a car-centric suburbia is unsustainable at scale...

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