[FarMcKon]

You can just say 'I don't like this' instead of making up a bunch of 'just so stories' about why.

Fine if you don't like density, but the whole pseudo-science `Dense urbanization is detrimental to health, physical and mental` is just mental.

[azemetre]

Very weird. My life has greatly improved since moving to a walkable city. It’s very nice to walk and get groceries for a meal that day or walk to a bakery or walk to a bar or walk to a store or walk to my doctors or walk to my friends.

When I lived in FL you had to drive everywhere. I’d rather be walking. We literally evolved to walk long distances, and cars don’t seem to be making our lives better with all the externalities getting ignored (air pollution, microplastics, and noise pollution).

I don’t mind if people want to drive, but they should be paying the true cost and not keep a massively subsidized lifestyle that can’t exist without massive federal funds.

[colechristensen]

I live in a downtown high rise. It’s 25 degrees outside, I have a lady friend who lives a mile away. I feel unsafe riding public transit at night here, much less her. She experiences extreme harassment walking here during the day (did it once, never again, I was on the phone with her, it was horrifying).

How do you propose she visit me without a car and available parking?

Uber would cost her more than an hour of her workday.

GP is damn right the opposition to parking is detrimental to health physical and mental as well as wealth.

[Moldoteck]

You gave an anecdotal example. I can give one too: generally medium density, mixed use, bikeble areas are much safer compared to other options, bc there are always people around, some go to work, some go to shopping, some go to drink a coffee, etc, adn ppl usually feel safer in this areas. On the other hand, low density areas are less safe bc there's no one around to call police if something happens. It's also a health problem both phisical and mental: ppl are more isolated from other ppl, it's harder to meet other ppl, it's much harder when you are old and ppl generally move less bc they must use a car for everything instead of walking/biking to the destination. In low density areas there's also a deficit of 3'rd places to meet ppl