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I forget but I believe the vast majority of people of all ethnicities will more often than not prefer single family homes because they can actually have a place to live and grow a family without it being like a commiebloc or some Brazilian favela
They also have room to grow a house, you can never add on to an apartment or condo. You can add another bedroom onto a single family home. My house is 100 years old and you can clearly see where they turned a porch into a kitchen extention.
 
I forget but I believe the vast majority of people of all ethnicities will more often than not prefer single family homes because they can actually have a place to live and grow a family without it being like a commiebloc or some Brazilian favela
Do these people truly desire to live communally on a park bench with 3 other people, or, do they think living like that is such a good idea, they'll be exempted from the rule (like all good commies think they will) and get a private apartment all to themselves as a reward for thinking it up?
 
Do these people truly desire to live communally on a park bench with 3 other people, or, do they think living like that is such a good idea, they'll be exempted from the rule (like all good commies think they will) and get a private apartment all to themselves as a reward for thinking it up?
I think they desire living in a sitcom. See, if everyone was forced to live in a pod, they'd surely have a giant apartment and a bunch of wacky friends to have adventures with, like in Friends or The Big Bang Theory or whatever, and it would be fun and so much better than mom's basement!
 
I think they desire living in a sitcom. See, if everyone was forced to live in a pod, they'd surely have a giant apartment and a bunch of wacky friends to have adventures with, like in Friends or The Big Bang Theory or whatever, and it would be fun and so much better than mom's basement!
The irony is that when you remove the laugh track from them, everyone comes off as either cringingly awkward (moreso than intended) or absolute lunatics you would want nothing to do with.

I'm pretty sure that a Friends-style setup in New York would've been a hard sell even in 1990s New York, much less today.

Elsewhere, /r/fuckcars are mad that India wants more roads. You MUST ride the Curry Express!

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I think they desire living in a sitcom. See, if everyone was forced to live in a pod, they'd surely have a giant apartment and a bunch of wacky friends to have adventures with, like in Friends or The Big Bang Theory or whatever, and it would be fun and so much better than mom's basement!
The biggest disservice the Big Bang Theory ever did was convincing bug men that they can date a hot chick by living in the same apartment as her. Surely one day she'll find your lame jokes endearing and not a pathetic attempt to illicit pity.

You know that saying how Ramona Flowers ruined an entire generation of girls. Well sitcoms ruined an entire generation of socially stunted men turning them into urbanists.

Living in an apartment is just like Seinfeld! Except instead of Kramer bursting through the door to say something wacky it's a guy on fentanyl with a gun who kills everyone and then takes all your stuff.
 
I think they desire living in a sitcom. See, if everyone was forced to live in a pod, they'd surely have a giant apartment and a bunch of wacky friends to have adventures with, like in Friends or The Big Bang Theory or whatever, and it would be fun and so much better than mom's basement!
They do realize that everyone hated Sheldon in the TBBT partly because he refused to get his drivers license and drive. He was the biggest burden on the rest of the group.
 
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They can't get that the "old town squares", even in Europe, are for tourists. The streets are narrow and have tacky touristy stuff like a bunch of umbrellas being suspended from wires and a bunch of restaurants and gift shops.

Meanwhile the rest of town has parking lots and roads with cars, and not a lot of cycling infrastructure either. Granted, the streets and parking are not as big as they are in America but in the "real" parts of town, they've got equivalents to North America, like a home improvement store chain analogous to Home Depot, complete with orange everything and a garden center, McDonald's and KFC, a highway that links it with the rest of the country, and single family homes with storage for cars.
 
The big thing for me is how paradoxical anti-car infrastructure is. These people claim they want to make it easier to navigate their communities, but in practice their infrastructure is alienating the broader community and discourages tourism and suburban visitors.

Let me give a real world example I've experienced: I live in the suburbs of Minnesota in close proximity to the twin cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul). If I want to go to Minneapolis I have to drive 25ish minutes, not bad. But once I get there it's a nightmare. Confusing one ways, narrow roads that should be one ways but are not so you're constantly going 5mph to avoid hitting the oncoming car, next to no parking anywhere and if you do find parking it costs money which is bullshit, constantly going 5MPH because there's a ton of people walking and biking everywhere, etc etc.

The city actively punishes you for for visiting from out of town, it's like they don't want you to be there if you own a car. So now I just don't go there anymore as it's not worth the headache. This is just me, but I doubt I'm the only one who's came to the same revelation.
 
Haven't seen any of the big urbanist (including Jason "I don't care about America" Slaughter) takes on Chevron Deference being overturned by the Supreme Court, but they should be widely celebrating its demise because it was the direct reason the EPA was able to implement the CAFE standards that are their most cited reason for the ballooning size of trucks and SUVs.

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But if they're anything like the typical leftist response, well...

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That's because they know that the real reason is that people like big trucks, not because of a "loophole" in fuel economy regulations.
 
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This is going to seem like I'm going on a random tangent, but I remember someone who analyzed Hitler's art without knowing who painted it saying "the artist appears to have a disinterest in people".

It sort of reminds me of fuckcars in a way. They're so obsessed with cars being in the way ruining their view that they overlook that ultimately people are driving the cars. They have needs and desires outside of what grand vision urbanists have for their mega utopia. It brings me to how they always talk about cars as if they're like a wild animal like deer or something just roaming around the neighborhood. They keep saying people over cars as if there aren't people inside of those cars.

That's why whenever they say their interest is in people I strongly disagree. I don't think they're interested in people otherwise they would just listen to what people want. They're interested in running society like some glorified game of Sim City.
 
That's because they know that the real reason is that people like big trucks, not because of a "loophole" in fuel economy regulations.
I have a 'small' pickup(GMC Canyon). I wish it was S10 sized with the same sized bed. There are smaller pickups like the Jeep Renegade and Ford Maverick. But their beds are even more useless than the Canyon.

I don't have a family or commute to work so I want 2 seats and a bed, preferably sheet of plywood sized, not 5 seats with a huge back seat and a tacked on bed.

Of course now I'm looking at the Silverado EV... there's no kill like overkill.
 
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