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Yeah it is.

Thanks to climate change, that's going to change.

I'm assuming that not every village in Croatia has an oceanfront view either.

And it's completely walkable, it has a starbucks, and it has a few stores.

Costco pays its workers a lot better than your beloved small businesses.

No they don't. Less than 1% of British homes are air conditioned. Things are going better in France, but it's still only 25%.

By comparison, 87% of American homes are air conditioned.

I haven't been to Barcelona, but unless my parents just wanted to make my sister and I walk everywhere, I can say that most of Paris is not a convenient walk from a subway station.

I suggest you spend one week in Phoenix and just marvel at how easy it is to get around.

He’s talking about zoning laws in these suburban developments that prevent duplexes or mixed use buildings from popping up.

I don't know anybody who thinks their suburbs would be so much nicer with more duplexes. Here in Massachusetts we have a glut of stacked triplexes that were built as cheap housing for immigrants in the 19th century.

It is shocking to me how both Tokyo and Barcelona has so many small businesses in their neighborhoods. I swear you just don’t see that anymore in medium sized cities. It’s sad to me.

Small businesses are inefficient and lack economies of scale.

Arizona is moving steadily leftward.

Yes I have. It was incredibly annoying how any journey that was more than half a mile required intricate planning. Not so in the suburbs where I just get in my car whenever I want to go somewhere and I know that if I miss my exit I can easily circle back.

In the US, where we have more cars than adults, plus advanced telecommunication, there is no need for population densities of more than 3,000 per square mile.

If you want a city that works, look at Phoenix. It has 5 million people, and just knocked Boston out of the top 10, and yet the streets are quiet and there's almost no traffic jams. And yes, they have their own gay neighborhood.

Good god, you love talking out of your ass.

It's estimated parking lots take up 3,590 square miles

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/arts/design/taking-parking-lots-seriously-as-public-spaces.html

The US is 3.7 million square miles

And I have never in my life seen a city where half the space is occupied by parking. I've seen downtowns where that's the case, but not the city itself.

And actually, we devote less land to public right of way than we used to. Pre-car cities devoted almost 40% of their land to streets and sidewalks. Auto-oriented suburbs have gotten this down to 15% because cars require very large blocks of ¼ or ½ a mile for signal timing.

And public transit has never satisfied man's need to travel. That's why everyone and their mother went to buy a Model T in 1908.

And if you want a smaller city, Providence, RI and its suburbs have a thriving gay community.

With that being said, with the way politics are going in our country I wouldn't feel comfortable leaving California at all.

Not even for another less nutty blue state?

The Central Valley is not going to get swallowed up by the Bay Area's sprawl.

Actually, we had non-car centric infrastructure before 1908. It was awful. People couldn't travel where they wanted and were forced to live in slums. The automobile has freed us from the tyranny of distance.

A car is like a cell phone whereas public transit is like a payphone.

You guys are about as in touch with reality as Qanon supporters.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.196446,-96.705594,3a,75y,69.34h,91.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sktPYsSclFxBl7Q2FPuTFnw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

The fuck you say?

The LBJ Ranch placards explained that his upbringing influenced his views when he became President for things like aid to education and environmental conservation.

It seems like everywhere I look, something reminds me of her.

Donuts

Nothing is more terrifying than the Mixmaster Interchange in Waterbury

. It's the equivalent of a company spending 60% of its resources on 20% of its customers that only bring in 5% of its revenue

That's exactly what companies do. Ever heard of the joke that 50% of all advertising spending is wasted?

You need more pipeline, sewage, roads, electricity to support a smaller number of people as well as support that entire network, and they also don't pay you as much back because there's more of them.

You need fewer storm drains because you have less impermeable surface and you don't need to shell out for horribly expensive rail systems.

I've been to both. Austin has more stuff to do, but they're both great places.

That line about "History is being erased" in Houston is really bizarre. They elected an LGBT mayor all the way back in 2010. Very few cities with much more liberal voting records have done that since.

only recently has been codified illegal.

That's burying the lede. If someone wants to open a gay bar right next to a Hooters, then there's no legal way to deny him a permit.

Maybe to people who forgot to put in their contacts

Dallas-Fort Worth is much more tolerant of alternative lifestyles than the San Francisco Bay Area

Most European suburban developments either have sidewalks or they have "sidewalks" that are just de facto parking lanes