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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ohhh... I'm totally on board with your urbanist agenda, PP,  but you do know that there certainly are big shopping malls and Fairfax-style dullsville suburban developments all over Europe, right? Lots of Europeans live exactly the way you say they don't and are too stupid to miss their walkable city centers. The idiocy of rural and almost-rural life has claimed plenty of victims on both sides of the pond.

But "we don't care if it's walkable" PPs are irresponsible because we, as a society, pay a heavy political and environmental price for the subsidizing of the car culture and the fueling of their supersized homes and lifestyles.

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What we don't care for is dimwits like you with a mind-boggling mix of idiocy and arrogance, presuming they can tell others how to live and judge them for following a model other than your preferred one. Who are you to decide what the right size is for my home and lifestyle?

Too bad you weren't born in the USSR, you'd fit right in.  [/quote]

And who are you to demand that those of us living more responsibly continue to subsidize the resources you so thoughtlessly consume? Haven't enough Real 'Merkuns died so you can continue to count on cheap gas? Haven't enough scary-assed regimes been fueled by oil money? Hasn't enough environmental damage happened to our own country as the result of our efforts to "unlock" our own fossil fuel reserves?

What about the depletion of farmland as it gets converted to "subdivisions"?

And yes, the obesity epidemic, for which car culture is at least in large part to blame.

You say all this is your business alone, but we all share finite natural resources and communal economic resources. Face it, your lifestyle choices are no longer so dominant in this region that you can continue to live as you do without coming under some criticism. [b]And certainly, the faster-rising value of District and sorta close housing stock confirms that perceptions of the desirability of a car-centric lifestyle are changing[/b].[/quote]
Dude, when you describe the "District" as not-car-centric, you come across as myopic as little girls who wax poetic about "Europe."  You don't actually mean the District of Columbia, because most of DC - outside of a handful of yuppy places like Dupont and Cleveland Park - are most assuredly NOT dependent on public transit. This applies across the economic spectrum.  The rich kids of Kent and Spring Valley will have to schlep to a coffee shop or a restaurant for as as many hours as impoverished kids of Southeast to the library or a grocery store. Wake up. The parts of DC served by public transit make up only a small part of the ENTIRE DC.   Oh, you may not have to drive as long as kids in Ashburn.  But rest assured, your bumcheeks will know the caress of the carseat as certain as sunrise. Yes, you can live a car-free life in the District - in a small, small handful of District enclaves.

But no argument from me on the faster rising values in DC.  I own a couple of rentals there, and I am pleased people like you pay my mortgage so I don't have to.[/quote]

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