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>having to pilot a huge deadly vehicle everywhere is vastly more stressful than just walking to handle my groceries.

That's a nice luxury to have. I take it you're fortunate enough to live in a very temperate area with palatable weather year-round, rather than somewhere that gets 110° F in the summer, or ice storms in the winter?

Not everyone can afford to live on the beautiful, comfortable, and exorbitantly expensive cities along the west coast.

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> I take it you're fortunate enough to live in a very temperate area with palatable weather year-round, rather than somewhere that gets 110° F in the summer, or ice storms in the winter?

Okay, we don't get the 110°F in the summer here (only up to the 90's), but we do get the ice storms in the winter.

I still walk to get my groceries if I can, even if it's actively snowing. I just wish they'd plow the sidewalks here, I don't like having to choose between walking in the street or trying to walk on uncompacted snow in my boots while laden with groceries.

Every place I've ever lived has required property owners to clear and salt their sidewalks within 24 hours of the snow stopping, and any place that actually gets regular, measurable snowfall (northeast, northern midwest) is pretty good about citing those that don't.

Have people not lived in those places in the past?

They have, but if you mean before the introduction of the automobile, it was in an era where nobody had to commute to get groceries because a majority of the population were subsistence farmers.

Do you know nothing about the history of the east coast? Do you ACTUALLY think everyone who lived there before 1900 was a subsistence farmer?

We have the choice of affordable, door-to-door air conditioning now, so why should we do without if we don’t have to?

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