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"It's not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!"
If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.
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Car centric infrastructure is less accessible though.
Americans have a hard time getting through the culturally ingrained car propaganda.
Yeah. It takes some real mental gymnastics to think that getting rid of parking minimums, getting rid of a harmful government regulation, increasing freedom, is a bad thing.
@Olgratin_Magmatoe @kurwa I wouldn't go that far. Just because every step is wrong, doesn't make the thought process that weird.
I'm saying we should have compassion for their misunderstanding. The conclusion is wrong, but the path to get there isn't that hard. Particularly when you've been raised in that paradigm (or raised watching media that shows it as the ideal).
For some of us American's we're trapped in it and it seems like it'll never go away no matter how much we hate it.
I'm someone who lives in a very rural area because I can't afford to live in a city.... so I need a car. Somehow, a mortgage and sharing a car with my husband is still more affordable than living in a walkable/bikable city in my state. That's a problem. I don't know how to fix it, but that's a freaking problem. Rent in some areas is double my mortgage on my small house. People who rent are getting royally fucked over by ever increasing prices.
If we want people to have less cars then cities need to be affordable for people to live in. It shouldn't cost more to not have a car. The US has so many backwards problems it starts to feel insurmountable.