• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Mostly agreed! The interstate highway system is one of America’s greatest achievements, and sorely underrated. And yes, we could do the same with passenger rail. I’d shit to hop a train, burn down the track to the French Quarter (New Orleans), get hammered, party down, sleep all the way back to Florida.

    But as to my other comment, I got questions.

    A cultural point you may be missing, if you’re not American, not all of us want to live in big cities. I know, far more efficient, no arguments there, but I refuse to live my only life packed in like rats.

    I’ve lived in Chicago, my current suburb of 9,000, my camp in a town of 900, and everywhere in between. I’m no misandrist, love people in general, but I’m not living that close to them. I get a little freaked out going to Pensacola! (54,000 souls) Been there, done that, need space and forests and waters.

    I can walk out my door and in 20 minutes disappear into hundreds of acres of forests, creeks and swamps. That is how I want to live the only life I got.

    We can talk park-and-ride systems?