Comment by rangestransform

You make it sound like a bad thing that I can avoid sharing space with people who smoke on the train, people who blast music on the train, people who do gymnastics on the train, people who make death threats on the train, people on the train who accost my girlfriend, people in the JetBlue security line who don’t know how to expediently unpack their luggage at the security line (got around this with precheck), and so forth

All of these were actual situations I encountered in NYC. The only reasons I don’t move somewhere car dependent are because I enjoy cycling and I hate parking even more than sharing space with the dregs of society.

Before anyone gets on their high horse about taking care of the lowest members of society, I pay enough taxes to completely absolve myself of any additional responsibility to them (NYC spends around 60000/annum/homeless person).