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People in the US live in suburbs that are several towns worth of distance away from the city. In many cases, the train lines don't exist on those places.

This culture of suburbia needs to change.

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Not really. Maybe we can live the way we want to and not pollute and use Zoom meetings. We don’t all have to live packed into cities.

Living in cities is significantly more efficient - environmentally, economically and on energy consumption and water consumption. We could all live out in the middle of nowhere, at the expense of the environment, but only if we significantly reduced our population at the same time.

I remain unconvinced that living outside of a city has a larger than normal share of environmental externalities.

Interesting, I did some digging based on your reply. Seems like it's an open question. I'll do some more reading!

It's not the one or or the other. I live far more remote than a typical American suburb. Yet my neighbor's sell cheese, milk and other stuff all around in simple fridges with a little qr code for payment. For everything else I can just order online and get it delivered asap.

I don't care that it takes me a hour or so to the nearest city by public transport. What I care is the infrastructure given there where I live.

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