Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter

Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Saledovil@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Walking.

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  • Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    that solves the first part if I walk for like 4 days, but how do I live there short of being homeless?

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    • conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ah. Well, the problem is that we’ve made building new housing units nearly impossible through decades of unforced errors at the local level in nearly all of our cities, as well as bullshit ass zoning. It’s not even remotely impossible to undo, but a lot of people don’t recognize it as the root of the problem. Again, check out Strong Towns, we’re working to walk these errors back and make our cities places that are built for people again.

      • With regards to zoning, nobody in their right mind is asking to let DuPont put a rocket fuel factory next to an elementary school. Many zoning codes have really terrible and not evidence based practices codified, such as enforcing single family housing sprawl, ensuring that you MUST drive to go buy a loaf of bread, and requiring outrageous parking requirements often 2-3x over what’s needed in practice.

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      • Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Thanks, I’ll look and see if theres a local chapter in my area. Ive been meaning to get more involved in local politics, its just hard to find a comfortable group of people to get in with in my experience. Would love to find out I can actually join people in something meaningful :)

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    • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was going to type out a reply, but conditional_soup already said everything worth saying.

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• conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Check out Strong Towns. They’re a policy advocacy group that’s focused on helping people influence policy at the local level to make their towns livable again. I’m a part of my local strong towns group, and they’re absolutely great. We’re getting the ball rolling, organizing with other local activist groups, meeting with local politicians to understand our local challenges better, and all while receiving a lot of support from the mother ship organization. Meanwhile, our town isn’t some metropolis, it’s only 90,000 people.

  If that isn’t your thing, just start going to city council or county board of supervisor meetings and start making public comments there. It’s a good way to meet with other policy advocates in your community and start networking with them.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just have to be European. Live on the south coast in the UK and life is so easy here.

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• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Stop making it a life-goal to go 1.5 million dollars in debt to own a stucco home in a vast ocean of identical stucco homes and maybe buy some property by a small town and sacrifice the luxury of convenience and being able to get doordash whenever you want and instead have a little garden or something.

  If the market decided that living in suburban hell wasn’t profitable anymore, they would stop paving over vast tracts of land to unroll a sea of terracotta roofs as far as you can see like a rolling ocean of debt.

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  • Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    1. Buying a property outside a small town defeats the purpose of being in a walkable city, no?
    2. Why are you assuming I want to live in a “stucco house”, or a single family home, at all?
    3. Why are you assuming I order doorfash, and dont have a garden (I do have a garden, and I have never ordered from doorfash.)

    you dont have to assume the worst all the time fella. this is lemmy, not twitter.

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  • TauZero@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    sacrifice the luxury of convenience and being able to get doordash whenever you want

    Not necessary. I live in Manhattan and the street canyons are full of doordasher ebikes, and grocery store isles are jammed with instacarter trailer carts which they then hitch up to more ebikes.

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The world is changing and so can yours. Ten years ago I tourists were always shooting videos of people biking to work. Today it’s (somewhat) normal to them. Look at Paris.

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