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Yeah, it was so much nicer with cars everywhere. A great place to raise kids, because if kids need to go somewhere they can just take the car.

Glad you found a place where you can park 3 cars, it is very useful to have so many cars.

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Nothing like an accidental death when kid rushes on a road. Much safer than with those dangerous bikes.

You may have a good reason for using that tone, but I'd never figure out that reason from the content of your post.

You might have a point. Mu frustration with the comment I was replying to was that it seems to be mostly about owning cars for owning cars sake (as if being able to park 3 cars was an actually desirable or reasonable thing to do) and promoting car ownership as the only possibility when kids turn 5 for reasons unknown.

Some of the most livable cities in the world have good public transport and low rates of car ownership (a fact that seems more and more correlated to said livability) and are good places to raise families.

A city is not a good place to grow up children. Crowded, busy place where they hardly can play outside. Maybe good to raise Instagram type of people. Kids need to become dirty outside in bushes. In Amsterdam you never see +5 year old kids outside. Because they aren't many and because they cannot play outside.

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