• AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    The “map” is not the problem, you just completely fucked up your city planning. Size of a country has zero impact on your daily commute.

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      1 year ago

      Size of a country has zero impact on your daily commute.

      Lol Ok. Guess everyone has to crowd together in comparatively tiny little cities. All this usable land outside the cities is now uninhabitable. Genius.

      Let me guess, we will own nothing and be happy, right? Oh and don’t forget about eating bugs!! Yum yum!

      Go slink back to hexbear.

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          Here I’ll speak slowly

          We have a big country. Big spaces mean longer commute. City design can't change physics of space-time.

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            That’s not how cities work. That’s just how America decided to approach that problem.

            To spell it out for you: your commute is always in your local area. The size of your country is not relevant to your local area. What is relevant, is density. Density though, has nothing to do with the size of your country. Unfortunately, you are about twice as dense as Hong Kong.

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              Your local area is trees now. Two and a half hours of trees. And a hideous tower thing painted to look like a marlboro cigarette, that people use as a landmark.

              Not that I disagree the other commenter kind of…went off the deep end at the end, there. But if your suggestion is not that we take everyone in most of the middle states and shove 'em all together into what would probably come to 3-4 mid-sized American cities — so I guess a medium European one, an event that will absolutely never happen anyway — then your remaining solution to the city density/commute thing must be…to…increase the density?

              Is that what you guys are asking? The only problem with America is that there aren’t enough Americans? Especially in Wisconsin?

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                I think you still completely misunderstand almost everything.

                Long commutes are the result of bad city planning. Most of the long commutes are not in rural areas, but essentially from the outskirts of a city to the city center.

                America decided to build huge suburbs devoid of any meaningful jobs. Suburbs are low density, so you need to build a lot of them to house the people, but that also means a lot of space is taken up by hardly any people. So the distance between your house and your job is simply longer.

                That has absolutely nothing to do with the size of the country. You don’t plan a city on a national scale. That happens locally.

                This entire thread is another example of the “murica never bad, murica special” trope. North America isn’t magically a completely different place from everywhere else.

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              We don’t all live in cities genius. Cities are shit. Outside of cities, public transportation and bikes are shit.