[levocardia]

Some of these "improvements" seem highly tilted towards the experiences of wealthy people in the suburbs. Here in the lower half of the income distribution in a major city, we still don't have AC, use gas stoves (and often start fires), get our car windows smashed more often (though instead of stealing the stereo, they steal the change in the center console and your extra clothes in the trunk), and instead of the car being stolen while you're gone, it gets stolen while you're in it -- at gunpoint! Car alarms go off all the time as well; still as much a part of the city audioscape as police sirens.

Ordering a mattress online is great, though.

[Aloisius]

We must have lived in very different cities since carjacking and car break-in rates were way more common in the 90s in the cities I lived in.

I can't think of any major city in the US, at least, where that isn't true.

[cadamsdotcom]

I'm not trying to be facetious here, although a surface read might seem so.

But like, if having a car is so terrible - why not migrate to an ebike?