It is deeply strange to me that artificial wombs aren’t brought up in these conversations

I’m a transhumanist and a largely “future oriented” person, so I have a hard time imagining a techno-social advancement that I would be against

I don’t think that trains and bikes would work out in the middle of nowhere, obviously. I just don’t understand why places like LA, Houston, and Denver lack all of the infrastructure that would make it count as a city

Over the pandemic our family vehicle was a bike. Recently my partner got a car for work, but I don’t drive so my mode of transportation is either walk, bike, or bus.

It obviously makes leaving our town to go to suburban spots tricky, but at least I don’t feel like I’m drowning from isolation living in the middle of nowhere

There are many spread out burbs that are adopting bike lanes and starting to build condos (thank goodness). Housing stock still isn’t catching up to demand but there are changes happening for sure

Are you joking?

I personally hate cars. I’ve lived in a few car dependent places in the US and it takes hours to walk or bus to anything. Especially with situations where there aren’t sidewalks or can be incredibly dangerous. It sucks that there are entire states that are dead zones for me but if you don’t drive most of America might as well be an ocean

I grew up taking public transportation and have been taking my son with me on the bus since he was six months old

People live in the city though. If you want to visit NYC take the train or bus, it doesn’t make sense to drive, and you add to the traffic of the city