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The externalities of North American-style sprawl (road congestion, pollution, etc) are pretty unambiguously harmful.



I'm just saying that the same could be said for cities and rural areas, just different (and some same) harmful effects, which makes suburbanization a bad example. One is not worse than the other - it's just a different set of trade-offs. It's nice that we all don't have to cram into uncomfortable cities or suffer through the banalities of rural areas, if we don't want to.


> It's nice that we all don't have to cram into uncomfortable cities or suffer through the banalities of rural areas, if we don't want to.

It’s nice because it’s the future generations that will have to pay for it.




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