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People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

People can't afford to live in the city precisely because so much of it is designed to cater to cars. For example, adding parking requirements to an apartment can easily increase the effective square footage by 50% (800 ft^2^ 2-bedroom apartment + 2 parking spaces = 1200 ft^2^). Then the price goes up even more than that because parking deck is more expensive per unit area to construct than actual living space.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Me, with no bus with a route from my bumfuck nowhere town to my work a 20 minute backwoods drive in some equally Fuckwoods, Nowhere town:

    Ever maybe think that maybe... JUST MAYBE!!! some people don't actually want to live in a 10000 person/mile area and want a different life with trees or fields around them instead of more endless asphalt?

    For those people, vehicles are the bridge between wanting to live around nature and not starving to death.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    If you're commuting from Bumfuck to Fuckwoods, you should drive*. Nobody cares! There are so few people like you that it doesn't fucking matter what you do!

    The issue is that people like you need to quit pretending your snowflake exceptions are an excuse to fail to solve the problem for the vast (80%!) majority of people who live in metro areas and are therefore not like you.

    (* Actually you should just move to Fuckwoods, but that's not the point.)

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