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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s an interesting phenomenon I’ve observed. Americans love livable, walkable communities. [b]“Town Center” developments like Reston and Pike and Rose are wildly popular. [/b]Affluent Americans also love going to European cities and walking everywhere. We spend money on bike tours of Napa and Italy. We idolize the residential college experience because of the sense of community and the ease of getting around. Then we will fight like hell to maintain an isolated, car-based lifestyle in the communities where we raise our families. I don’t get it. [/quote] Yet Rockville Town Center was a ghost town even before the pandemic (I can only imagine how dead it is now). Explain that. Plus, Reston and Pike/Rose both have absurd amounts of cheap public parking (as does Rockville Town Center). It's not like many people are walking *to* those places, they're just walking *around* those places once they drive there. [/quote]
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