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[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

In CA, my rent is close to $2k a month, but I can walk to basically everything I need to. In MI, my rent is $650 a month, but the closest coffee shop is miles away.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

If your car gets 30 mpg, then you could drive 30 miles for less than $5 probably. It would be more frugal to drive and have the cheaper cost of living.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

That is only true if you prefer money over the environmental damage you do.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

The minuscule amount of pollution that my fuel-efficient car produces is completely insignificant in the grand scale of planet Earth. So yes I do prefer having money to live on than worrying about that.

You can guilt trip me about my car after you succeed in getting millionaires to ground their private jets and when mega-corporations stop massively polluting everything around the world.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, and throwing a can out of the window on a highway is also insignificant >.>

You have the exact same mentality as those millionaires you complain about.

[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

only because it's artificially constructed to be like that for the benefit of the car-oil industrial complex

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Everything humans build is artificially constructed

[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

specifically, in this case, euclidean zoning, FAR limits, skewed investment, unsafe intersections, oil subsidies, etc.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No, the roads were constructed so that people could travel from one place to another more easily. They existed before cars did, and people traveled on these old roads with horses and carriages. Many of the roads around where I live (in an area the government designates as rural) have historical markers that describe their history going back to the days of Colonial times.

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