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by foxyv 994 days ago
If you go to downtown Topeka and try to find a place to hang out on a weekend morning you will notice a really strange thing. A lot of the cafes, restaurants, and places to hang out are only open for the afternoon lunch rush and happy hour on weekdays. Literally the only customers they have are people who commute into the city for work.

Our cities are no longer places for people to live. They are places for people to drive to. Normal people can't afford to live in them anymore so they don't. Now that people aren't commuting either downtown will have to adapt or die.