Posted on 08/27/2022 5:37:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’ve lived in Houston for most of my life, and there’s never been a time when I’ve reasonably been able to walk anywhere. Houston is practically the poster child for American urban sprawl — the landscape is dominated by spread-out neighborhoods with single-family homes and massive “stroads” (street-road hybrids with the worst aspects of both) lined with strip malls and expansive parking lots, connected by miles and miles of highways. It’s an environment designed to be solely traversed by car, not by foot.
That had a dramatic effect on the friends I could make, especially when I was younger and based in the city’s outer suburbs. Both of my parents worked, and without a car, if I missed my school bus home, I’d have to make the one-and-a-half-hour trek by foot under the hot Texas sun — forget easily going to the mall or the movies with my classmates.
College was eye-opening. I attended Texas A&M University, and spent most of my time in a denser, walkable campus environment that made it easy to meet and get to know people. I could start my day going to classes, then move to a dining hall, then the green space in front of my department building, and finally, the library — all without a car. It was easy to bump into friends, old and new, intentionally and by accident.
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They want us to live in cramped urban ghettos where our independence is limited and we are easier to control.
Whatever...
I don’t like humans anyway...
They did have the best roast beef hash I've ever tasted so there's that.
Is it a he-she or a she-he?
I too am more comfortable in the company of our reptilian overlords.
Thanks, I too looked up the name and then it all fell into place. Hope he finds a nice ‘husband’.
Yeah let’s all take life advice from that thing.
I grew up around Charlotte and visited a lot even I moved to Columbia on weekends.
5 years or so since I was there last. Unrecognizable.
I don’t miss the place at all.
If people wanted to live in those urban garbage dumps they would move there on their own.
"Progressives" and other leftist Libtards always think they know more than you what is best for you!
All these leftists really want is to live on a college campus forever. Everything is sooo hard once we have to make an actual effort to live adult lives.
We need to make cities and suburbs more like college so we never have to grow up. And jobs need be like college too, overpaid work/study so we have plenty of time to scroll our phones while we sip our soy latte.
Bunch of shining wits as Reverend Spooner would say.
Exactly.
I think this guy would love Europe.
Perhaps he can apply for deportation by President Trump in 2025.
“Too many?”
Liberals believe themselves to be the arbiters of everything everywhere in perpetuity.
I caught that too. Another leftist punk trying to boss people around.
oo many Americans live in places built for cars — not for human connection
Captain Kirk killed their leader
He should be Shunned and outcast....
Unfortunately, aside from the peaceful, verdant college campus, most "walkable spaces" are the abode of muggers, street thugs, homeless junkies, and violent schizophrenics.
We are still a big enough country for people to live in the kind of area they want to live in. This “density” thing has been politicized, but the difference seems to be between older communities that were built on a more human scale and newer communities that do seem like they were built for cars. You can certainly disagree with his love of “density,” but it’s not an all-or-nothing thing. Communities have to juggle to combine the needs of cars with the desire for more accessibility on foot. BTW, Living in a rural area may mean needing a car, but those areas weren’t “built” for cars.
Communist think.
Like I said, leftist-run S-holes, otherwise that mode of living would be perfectly fine for me.
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