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I barely understand how cars culture work in the USA. Infrastructure costs are huge, yet people in this country do not want to pay taxes and will build schemes to avoid them at all costs. And they don't want to have shops and restaurants at a walking distance from their house.

It can only lead to bankrupting country or cities, drive on barely maintained roads and suffer traffic and lose precious time every day.

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>And they don't want to have shops and restaurants at a walking distance from their house.

If prices are any indicator, people highly value walkable neighborhoods, which is why they tend to be much more expensive than less walkable suburbs.

> which is why they tend to be much more expensive than less walkable suburbs.

Also there are barely any walkable neighborhoods in America

Australia has quite a few, especially around Melbourne. And they are all the most expensive places to buy or rent. Made up for the fact you save a fortune not needing a car.

Every major metro area in the US has walkable prisons. This myth that they don’t exist needs to fall off already.

> “Walkable prisons”

“freedom is slavery”

“ignorance is strength”

Are children not imprisoned in the suburbs because they can't drive?

> Also there are barely any walkable neighborhoods in America

There aren't enough, a lot more walkable neighborhoods would be quite welcome.

But it's an oft-repeated exaggeration that they don't and can't exist. There are tons of walkable neighborhoods in the US. Every place I've lived in California (four) has been a very walkable. My current suburban location is extremely walkable to pretty much anything I could need (and it was built in the 1990s, so it's not some pre-car era relic).

It’s all a growth Ponzi scheme. Let immigration, population growth and new development keep roads maintained. Until the music stops.

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