• Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Calling anywhere in Greater Houston “the middle of an urban area” is just incorrect. It’s the 4th most populated city in the US and the 150th most densely populated. There are a lot of people in Houston but also just a fucking Tom of Houston around. But, as is the norm in this magazine, you are all free to ignore facts and data so you can raise a furor in your tiny anti-car cult.

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      6 months ago

      Calling anywhere in Greater Houston “the middle of an urban area” is just incorrect.

      It’s the 4th most populated city in the US

      lmao

      • TipRing@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Houston is so big because the city has absorbed all the communities around it. It’s incredibly sprawled so the density is much lower than cities of comparable population. This creates all sorts of other issues, like the problem of paving over hundreds of square miles of wetland.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
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      6 months ago

      Why do you think it’s so sparsely populated? What’s keeping people so far from each other? Is it just Houstonians are their own species and can’t stand to be in areas over a certain population density?

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        6 months ago

        Because humans enjoy having lots of space to live in. Personally I would never go back to living in an apartment since I can afford a house and land. I’ve lived in small apartments, big apartments, a single-wide trailer, large houses, small houses, and medium houses. Medium house with acreage of land is the best living situation of all for me.

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      6 months ago

      Did you really decide that posting that was a good idea? Did you seriously think about it at all before writing it?

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          6 months ago

          I concur bro. These bullshitters are high on their own farts and apparently can’t see the truth that they are never going to change the vast landscape of America into their imaginary Soviet-style shithole idea of a “utopia” where people don’t drive and live in tiny boxes in human hives.

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            6 months ago

            Soviet Union was bad for multiple reasons but in major cities the housing was not really any worse than anywhere else in the world. I guess you just enjoy spending 3 hours a day in your car.

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              6 months ago

              I don’t commute to work often, but when I do it’s only about a 20 minute drive in light traffic. I certainly wouldn’t spend 3 hours a day in a car to commute to work when there are plenty of jobs within that 20 minute commute from my house.

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          6 months ago

          Cool story. Come back when your brain has developed past the age of 2, we’ll gladly discuss then.