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[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's cause property tax encourages sprawl.

Everything is far from everything. Downtown is single-story buildings spaced out by vacant lots. All your friends live far away. It's suspiciously convenient for a police state to control people who literally can't reach each other without traveling through long gauntlets of cameras on roads where you must have a license and aren't allowed to walk.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

It's more than that; it's that the zoning code mandates sprawl. It is literally illegal to build walkable developments in most places.