I stay far far far away from the dense cities. I can't stand those places.
I'm quite happy with the way in the US you can pick where you want to live - anything from superdense, to urban, to suburban, to rural.
Whatever you like, there's a city that will match you.
Even better is how in some cities there is a mix, all within 50 miles of each other you have all the types. You get the benefit of business city center without actually having to live there.
That's fine, so long as you're willing to pay for your infrastructure. Low-density suburbs with full utilities, storm sewer, etc, must have it's cost paid for by those who choose to live that lifestyle.
Those of us living 27 stories up are more efficient and shouldn't have to pay for your roads.
Because you grow crops on the roof, weave cotton in the basement, and build for furniture on another for? Roads are used for more than moving people around, they also move good around,which almost everyone partakes.
>Because you grow crops on the roof, weave cotton in the basement, and build for furniture on another for?
There's this thing that lets you present those expenses to consumers - it's called pricing.
You have to pay more for road maintenance - you raise prices to cover it - I now see the actual cost of your product instead of it being subsidized by my tax money regardless of using them.
A vanishingly small proportion of suburbanites farms, weaves or works in furniture factories. Indeed I wouldn't be amazed if more apartment-dwellers are engaged in those activities than McMansionites.
It seems to me that both urban and suburban landlords charge what they can get away with (aka "what the market will bear",) which is a much larger number in sought-after urban areas than in the suburbs. The kind of subsidies you talk about may also exist, but they're not the primary factor.
Except you can't. Your choices in the US are almost always suburban to rural, especially if a) you don't have a lot of money to afford the desirable urban areas and b) you don't want to deal with the crime in the undesirable ones.
I love cities. But I'm having a hard time with so-called "urbanist" people/policies.
A lot of the philosophy boils down to intentionally make life harder for anyone who isn't living in Downtown urban cores -- areas so expensive, no one who works for a living can ever afford them.
Effectively, they want to punish poor and middle class people simply for being poor and middle class, through the design of the place we all live in. Which is counter to the whole point of cities in the first place.
Please don't!!!
I stay far far far away from the dense cities. I can't stand those places.
I'm quite happy with the way in the US you can pick where you want to live - anything from superdense, to urban, to suburban, to rural.
Whatever you like, there's a city that will match you.
Even better is how in some cities there is a mix, all within 50 miles of each other you have all the types. You get the benefit of business city center without actually having to live there.