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And with a medium density, less car-centric neighborhood, people can reasonably walk or bike to work, the grocery store, etc., meaning a car is optional and it's easy to get exercise. Right now we drive everywhere, spend loads of money on cars and roads, and wonder why we are so fat! It is not cheap, healthy, or sustainable to base our communities on the idea that everyone must buy a 3-5 bedroom house on a quarter acre in the suburbs and commute 30 minutes in a Jeep.
People are not leaving California because it's too dense, they're leaving because it stopped building homes.
Fine if you don't like density, but the whole pseudo-science `Dense urbanization is detrimental to health, physical and mental` is just mental.
When I lived in FL you had to drive everywhere. I’d rather be walking. We literally evolved to walk long distances, and cars don’t seem to be making our lives better with all the externalities getting ignored (air pollution, microplastics, and noise pollution).
I don’t mind if people want to drive, but they should be paying the true cost and not keep a massively subsidized lifestyle that can’t exist without massive federal funds.
How do you propose she visit me without a car and available parking?
Uber would cost her more than an hour of her workday.
GP is damn right the opposition to parking is detrimental to health physical and mental as well as wealth.