This article is so bad that many of the comments are a better read than the actual post. Extremist takes like this are what is wrong with our country. 

Meh. Forced urbanization results in gentrified neighborhoods with captive audiences. That typically results in inflation of living costs, jacked up prices, and limited choices.

No need to ditch cities. It’s just totalitarian urbanism that needs to go.

This^^^

Pretty much, but with one caveat: Don’t get rid of cities, get rid of ‘downtown’.

I’m sorry to disagree so stridently, but this is such an impractical, heavy-handed approach to environmentalist goals - tell people that we need to totally restructure the places they live in and remove their ability to move places on their own volition. This has to develop organically and gradually if it is to…

Shit; the minute my job OKs permanent remote work - my ass is getting right the fuck OUT of Los Angeles and never coming back.

A lot of people, myself included, only live in cities because that’s where the good jobs lie. If I didn’t have to worry about salary, I’d live somewhere with rural roads to hoon, national or state parks to hike in and a lot of land between me and the neighbor.

Exactly, my wife has already been told to expect to permanently work from home except in cases where there’s a group project or meeting that requires being in the building. If my job could be done remotely we would already be building a house on my in-laws farm.

Oh let’s just start right here with the title.

Ask people in Montreal’s Plateau how they feel about everything being done to get rid of cars there... It helps gentrification, people from outside town don’t come anymore, it makes life more and more expensive and everything unpractical. It’s a freaking city. If people don’t want so many cars in their lives, maybe…

Completely agree. Though the whole thing has been a double-edged sword, with the office managers not wanting to give up control/ not trusting people to do at home what they do in the office, and people either doing the right thing at home (if you’re metrics at home match the ones in the office...what’s the problem?)…

I’d rather we ditch cities.

The mega cities are too far gone for this happen. It’s not for lack of technology and good design. It’s because of the real estate industry. And even more specifically, developers.

But that isn’t this.

Man, this supposed car enthusiast website just can’t stop itself from regularly posting articles about getting rid of cars...

Here’s the thing about 15 minute cities: They’re terrible.

The cities are dying? I personally live in suburbs, but it takes 10 minutes to get to the main drag of a nearby small town and the supermarket. The town seems to be doing ok. Now, are you saying I need to give up my home with garage and parking for four cars, swimming pool, and back yard with two bbbq grills and a dog…

Back in 1967 my family drove in our 1966 VW bug from the SF Bay Area to Boise Idaho to visit my mother’s sister. My dad built a little stowable platform for the back seat. During the day, the four of us kids would sit in the back seat. When it got dark the platform was deployed and we would sleep, looking out through…

Lol. You call yourselves Jalops? I find the safety argument sort of marginal. We aren’t talking a corvette here. He wants one of the most solidly built sedans ever and they’re slow as all get-out. I’d probably get a w126 instead of the 123 but still. It’s fine. If you have some minor wrenching ability you can…