In Europe at least it is super hard to afford rent inside the centre of a big city. But yeah being a “walking pedestrian” is soooo cool.
And you can actually do it in the urban suburbs :) but in Paris for example, the cost of living is so high in the suburbs and the center.
In China it’s easy to afford rent in most of the cities on a full time minimum wage job, and the cities are extremely walkable. My wife lives in a 18 story building, and immediately outside of her development are at least 6 supermarkets, 20 restaurants and countless bus stations and subway stations. Sounds like it’s more of a problem with the economic system than the city itself.
If it weren’t for authoritarianism, pollutions and terrible cyberpunk stuff + human's right violation I think I’d love to live in China lol
I think I only ever lived in the real "center" of a city once when I was crashing at a friends place while looking for an apartment.
All of my other places have been further out in neighborhoods outside of the center but there were still shops everywhere. Single use zoning and the tendency to obsess over shitty copypaste single family homes is the real culprit in the US.
Europe's city centers are friggin expensive, if you know what I'm talking about you know. The suburbs are usually fine, also some of the best paces ever are between the suburbs and the center. Locals in the old town will make you pay for the oxygen they have in
Who can even afford living in a city or on the country side? City is too expensive, and country side is cheap but there are no jobs. If you wanna have some kind of a decent-sized place for a family with kids, suburbia is a must unless you are somehow rich. Or happen to have a job that exists in the country side.
Here in sweden you can find municipal housing apartments for 400 bucks per month literally right in the middle of downtown, in smaller cites.
The wonders of actually building enough housing and not having it all be for profit.
I guess if you live on a farm or walk to the grocery store, you don't have an internal monologue?
you need eggs for dinner
Do you, though? I've swapped which nights I'm making which dinners so I can pick up missing ingredients on a day I'm going out anyway.
My suburb doesn't allow chickens as they're livestock, but it does allow egg-laying ducks because those are apparently pets.
All the corner stores in Sydney have been turned into homes.
Yes. I'd like to pay 50quid for some eggs please, Mr Cornershopman. 😂
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