Suburbia.
Ok People can you follow me for a few minutes here?
Suburbia is fucking stupid. Pardon my French. Do we understand this? People living in 3000 sq ft houses with no yards driving 2-3 cars and have 1.5 children commuting to jobs they hate for a total of hours in their day. Neighborhoods that are nothing even close to neighborly. Community? Does anyone even understand what that means anymore?
Over populated my ass. We are not overpopulated we have created a sprawl that is unsustainable in the most vital ways. These suburbs that are being built all over are not solving anyones problems. The solution is high density intelligently designed housing and amenities. Think about it. We are not walking, biking, using transit because as it stands we can’t it is a 20 min drive never mind the walk! Transit will not service suburbs because it isn’t worth it to them the density is not high enough there are not enough people who require transit. We fall back on our cars.
Gas prices are not forcing us to change. We need to look at how we live. Our very way of life and what it has grown into is what has to change. Communities where you can call your neighbors by name and pick up their kids from school. You carpool because you work with friends and are involved in each others lives. We are all part of the solution because we all contribute to the problem.
Crap this isn’t coming out right……..maybe I should take more time to think about it! Clearly it isn’t easy.
