• helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    9 months ago

    If I wanted a recap of our conversation I would have asked ChatGPT. You’re getting caught up in the details and intentionally ignoring the point.

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      9 months ago

      I am asking you what your point is and you’re throwing out ideas not based in reality.

      The point that I made, that you are attempting to prove wrong, is that cities have readily available affordable transportation and if more people move to and work in cities they’d become even more robust and human-friendly. I’m suggesting that the lives of people living in the suburbs and working in cities (or pleading not to return to city office spaces), would be more affordable, flexibly, and convenient if they forwent private vehicle ownership in favor of living in a city and utilizing not-private transportation.

      You seem to believe that cities do not have not-private transportation or a bus within thirty miles. That is a detail that’s very relevant to the point of the conversation.

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        9 months ago

        I am asking you what your point is

        I don’t know how I could possibly be more clear about my point. Most US cities do not have sufficient public transportation to consider as a realistic alternative. I’ve already given several examples from the city I personally live in.

        The point that I made, that you are attempting to prove wrong

        I’m not attempting to prove anything. I’m just telling you that you’re wrong. And clearly the vast majority agrees.

        if more people move to and work in cities they’d become even more robust and human-friendly

        People do want to live and work in cities. That’s why it’s more expensive. Like 5-10x more expensive in my area. Selling my car ain’t gonna cover that cost. Cities do nothing but build more and bigger highways that spread further away from town and mandate giant parking lots. You have it backwards.

        You seem to believe that cities do not have not-private transportation or a bus within thirty miles.

        Forget the thirty miles. Call it 10 miles. How are you gonna get there? Ride your bike? Great, add another hour to your commute, on top of the extra hour it takes the bus to get you into town instead of driving. Assuming you’re not murdered on your way to the bus stop because the city lacks proper cycling infrastructure.

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          9 months ago

          It would be helpful to know what cit you live in. I’m in Philadelphia. There’s literally a bus stop 12 steps from my front door. The next three closest stops are each a block away. I can not fathom a city that doesn’t have a bus stop more than a fifteen minute walk - let alone ten miles(!) away.

          In my city, it’s substantially cheaper to live here than in the suburbs with a car. This certainly fluctuates across the country but 5-10x more is ridiculous. Maybe twice as much at most or three times as much in places like SF and NY. As I stated from the beginning, those are exceptions.

          You have it backwards. It’s the suburbs that are the cause for so many highways. You can’t have suburbs without highways to get around. Cities are self contained. I have no need for a highway. Nor a parking lot. It’s the people who live in the suburbs who visit and work in the city who use parking lots. This is all apparent in your own statement; “selling a car… cities build more highways” is grossly illogical.

          You are clearly hyper focused on people who live in a suburb and want to get to a city. You are ignoring the entire point of the conversation.

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            9 months ago

            I can not fathom a city that doesn’t have a bus stop more than a fifteen minute walk - let alone ten miles(!) away.

            LOL this entire conversation seems to be entirely about your inability to fathom what it’s like in other cities.