• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    the “amenities” eliminated are parking minimums, and you’re assuming that the parking minimums aren’t causing oversupply of unused parking lots.

    That’s like “saving time” by not installing electricity or smoke alarms. What a boondoggle; especially in car-dependent America!

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      The people who need cars won’t buy these. Not everyone needs every feature. That’s like complaining about lack of an on site gym. If that’s important to you, find a place that has it.

      I can name five people who don’t have a car and are happy. Can you name five people who don’t have electricity and are happy? Or will you admit that your point is a bit exaggerated?

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        That seems entirely dependent on where you live. Some cities make it real easy to live without a car, but most don’t and every city in WA outside of Seattle (2.5hrs from the city in this article) is just the same.

              • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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                4 months ago

                How do you figure? You specifically bolded “in places that don’t need them” in a reply to my “some cities make it easy to go without a car but most don’t” which sounds like you’re in agreement that some cities can do without cars. Vancouver, WA is not one of those cities.

                  • Aatube@piefed.social
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                    4 months ago

                    do you see how replying to “every city in WA except of Seattle doesn’t make it real easy to live without a car, and the city in the article is very much outside of Seattle” with “you can’t read, i was just talking about places that don’t need them” makes one think you’re saying that “the city in the article is not one of the places that don’t need them”?

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                4 months ago

                can’t you just explain I’ve got no idea what you’re saying either

                flippancy is just the progressive version of virtue signaling—it gets nobody else on your side

    • itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Just because your lifestyle requires a car doesn’t mean everyone’s does. I would love less parking lots, less roads with cars on them, less car infrastructure in general. You can have your infrastructure in your suburbs, let us have ours in our cities.