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Comment by TSiege

1 day ago

They're also much cheaper from an infrastructure perspective to maintain

Life in the city is more expensive, in my experience though. Richer, with vastly more options, sure - but more expensive overall.

  • In the US it's a supply and demand problem. America chose redlining. White flight. More cars, less public transit. They largely stopped building desireable new mixed use medium density neighbourhoods after WW2.