• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    There are other places in the world who do this much better than the US. How about instead of assuming it’s impossible because you haven’t seen it you consider that it is, in fact, possible but the image has been designed to make it appear impossible by those benefiting from it not being done.

    Also, choosing to live away from work is a choice. Suburbia is a choice, and actually one that costs more money in taxes than it makes over time, requiring it to continue to expand or admit it doesn’t work. You can choose to live closer, or even choose to bike to a bus stop/train station/whatever that is positioned reasonably if things weren’t designed around making car and gas company executives rich.

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        8 months ago

        Yes it is. It always is. There may be a premium, but there’s a cost to car ownership and usage as well, but also more importantly there’s taxes we all pay to keep rural or suburban life possible. Suburbs actually take more on taxes than they produce. The problem is that cost is socialized, which is fine if more costs were socialized.

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          8 months ago

          Yes it is. It always is.

          No it just fucking isn’t. You really think every place of work magically has dozens of free apartments close to it and you can just hop to a different one every time you change jobs? What fucking fantasy land do you live in?

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          @Cethin @space_comrade More aptly: “designing society so that the only affordable housing is far from jobs that we require people to have to deem them worthy of existing” is a choice.

          There are many things we can change to fix this.

          Further, there are many things that should be changed to fix this.

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      8 months ago

      Suburbia? Thanks for showing you have no idea what I’m talking about.