• rexxit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is EXACTLY the kind of point I’m trying to make. Humans keep packing more and more into the same forever-growing cities and it makes the formerly-pleasant harsh, foreign, and unwelcoming.

    There exist nice places that have balance - green spaces, slow pace of life, nice local restaurants, uncrowded trails, minimal traffic and short commutes.

    Then they become discovered, become popular, and become overcrowded in a way that ruins what made them special to begin with. But they still look small to people from the big cities, who keep moving there. Now increasingly expensive, congested, and losing their original character, the urban zealots who invaded start screeching about cars, walkability, bikeability, and transit. It was perfectly bikeable, and there was no traffic before everyone tried to pile in.

    The enemy is GROWTH, and OVERCROWDING, not single family homes and cars.

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      1 year ago

      Both pictures are equally overcrowded though. And just getting rid of people is not really an option.

      • rexxit@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Not allowing the overcrowded parts of the world to invade the less crowded parts of the world is a policy choice.