If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity

Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by OJFord on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:42PM (#41112711)

Bus riding I can sort of understand, that tends to be the case everywhere outside of manor metros IME (and not without a certain amount of truth to it) - but to think of walking or cycling like that seems really sad, what a way to live, shielded from the natural environment, shuffling from one air conditioned box to the next.

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by zamadatix on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:49PM (#41112801)

I'm not going to blame anyone in Houston for wanting to move from one air conditioned box to the next :p.

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by OJFord on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @04:46PM (#41113972)

Sure but if you decide that's not a way you want to live then you also don't want to live somewhere where it's uncomfortable for you otherwise.

(And while I'm here 'manor' in GP was a typo for 'major', in case that's not clear to anyone.)

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by johnnyanmac on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @07:08PM (#41115010)

> if you decide that's not a way you want to live then you also don't want to live somewhere where it's uncomfortable for you otherwise.

well, our living choices aren't necessarily choices these days. Nor comfortable. More like compromises for suvival. Already had more than a few friends priced out of California and needing to move out of the state in its entirety.

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by OJFord on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @07:44PM (#41115190)

Of course; it's for that reason that I said 'you don't want to live' rather than 'you don't live'.

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