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> outright bans of denser types of housing makes this lifestyle all but impossible.

I'm confused by this take. Most American urban cities are unnecessarily dense - Manhattan, SF, Chicago all squeezed into high rises 1000 occupant buildings.

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We must have seen different versions of New York. The one I remember had a few high rises at Manhattan, a lot of lower buildings at the central areas and suburbs of individual houses that extended tens of kilometers to every direction. The difference to for example Hong Kong is huge.

The densest cities in the world have no high-rises.

Paris is approximately 3X denser than Boston and far more livable.

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