* Looks out window at: three bus stops, 2-5 pubs, a row of restaurants, and a busy shopping street at ground level *
Reader, those things were all there before I moved here. They're a big chunk of the reason WHY I moved here. 17 years ago …
@cstross Possibly American? Their cities really are very functionally separated, usually.
sure but nobody actually likes that. even when they think they do, they complain about it later.
@ossmkitty @rsynnott @cstross everyone actually likes urbanism when they get to live in it, americans are just afraid of not having room for the entirely too much stuff we all have, and space for a car that most people actually need because public transit is so bad.
@quinn @ossmkitty @rsynnott @cstross
Been there, done that, hated it more than you can possibly imagine.
I have no axe to grind with people who like that sort of thing, mind. Tastes differ. But my particular kind of introversion has me going slowly crazy from the intolerable psychic pressure of other people everywhere around me.
(Moving from UK urbanity to no-shared-walls American suburbia knocked a good 30 mmHg off my blood pressure.)
