• Belsedar@slrpnk.net
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    15 days ago

    The best situation is when you don’t need a car to simply exist. That should be the norm, not the exception.

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      14 days ago

      In the Netherlands I would switch to bike. Here (kraut), not so much. And public transport is a nasty nightmare. Nah, car it is!

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        13 days ago

        Unfortunately it feels like in many places that isn’t the case, and that more and more new developments follow the US urban planning paradigm of endless suburban hell

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            13 days ago

            With company towns there are real risks that when that company disappears, that town will also. Just looks at what happened in the US, in Appalachia.