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dont_lemmee_down@lemm.ee 16 hours agoThat’s fun. I was a driver kid and didn’t know what I was missing till I moved to a place with good bike/public transport infrastructure.
I suspect people who claim that they prefer to have a car never experienced how much better life quality is in a place without cars where cycling is convenient.
(The noise pollution alone is worth it!)
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Where have you been that both has few drivers and is quiet? The much lower population density that is made possible by driving reduces noise much more than cars increase it.
Hoimo@ani.social 14 hours ago
You underestimate how much noise cars make. I’m 20 meters from my neighbors and I never hear a peep. Meanwhile, I’m a kilometer from the highway and I can hear always hear it at least a little bit (and a lot when the wind is in my direction). So you have to go really low density, like 1 house per square kilometer and 5 kilometers of dirt road before even reaching a regional road, to go quieter than this, but… unsurpisingly, not many people live there.