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[-] Gormadt 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Straight up, get politically involved in your community

It might sound silly or inconsequential, but it will have an impact. Even a small impact is better than no impact.

You want a more pedestrian focused city plan to happen? More parks? More multi-family housing? Better bus lines? Get involved, talk to your city council, get your friends involved.

It might sound small, but all change starts small.

Edit: Hell a friend of mine was able to get enough people in his HOA together to get them to start looking into adding some more people focused stuff to their little community. Like adding a couple bike racks to the park in their neighborhood and blending the curbs in a bunch of places.

[-] Rookwood@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

If you have friends to talk to about city planning, you probably won't kill yourself. We live in the age of loneliness. People are isolated and feel doomed and hopeless.

[-] Gormadt 6 points 1 year ago

Probably won't kill themselves, but not a certainty. Unfortunately I've lost a number of friends over the years to deaths of despair (drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, etc)

We definitely live in an age of loneliness that's undeniable.

The only way to address it though is to get out there because our infrastructure is built to isolate and people have been raised to fear their neighbors.

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