The word you are looking for is “arcology”.

Yuck. Not everyone loves to live right next to everyone else.

... people know there are cities much smaller than NYC, but are not really “rural” either, right?

... while you have fun with that dystopia, I’ll be over here in the “but you have to live in the midwest....” 2 story manor house and acreage, quiet, privacy, grass and fresh air.

so NY turns into Judge Dredd... somewhere in the midwest it turns into Divergent... then the aliens cackle at their “multi-generational Social Experiment”

Lived on 9th Ave for years. Someone asked me for a recommendation just tonight for a place on 8th Ave in the same area. My response was, ”8th avenue? I never hung out over there!”

A friend of my sister did her master’s thesis on a group of older women (in their 60s and 70s) living in Queens. If I remember the statistics correctly, most of them had never been to Manhattan and about half had never left the borough of Queens.

Official US state abbreviations are 2 letters not 3. I worked for a USPS remote I coding center for 3 years in college

Well, there are urbanites who have zero interest in going to rural areas. What, no phone signal and no wi-fi?

You may laugh, but its very common. Other than a short 3 year stint in Detroit when I was a kid, I was born and raised in NYC. Went to school in Queens and Manhattan, college and med school in Brooklyn, and I still live in Queens.

Don't forget Towering Inferno

You know what they say, everything in movies is or will come true!

At least the cop was in New York. I knew people in Florence, AL who had never left the area. They thought of crossing a bridge into Muscle Shoals as an exciting day trip.

One of the coolest buildings I’ve ever seen is the RSA Dexter Avenue Building in Montgomery, Alabama, right across the street from MLK’s church. It was built in 2011 around the old state Judicial Building, which was built in 1926 originally as a Masonic Temple. The atrium of the building is absolutely stunning.

Im a teacher at a school in the UK, and it’s sad to hear that many of my students/parents haven’t ever ventured outside of the city I’m working in.

It’s a pretty common for people in Manhattan to not even need to go outside of a 10 block radius from their apartment.

You are saying exactly the same thing actually. That isn’t even limited to major metropolitan areas, think of small towns where generations have been born, lived, and died there. If they have no desire to ever travel, and all their needs are fulfilled by what is within the confines of their area, it works, it arguably…

Not that this is the same as what you are saying, but during one of my visits to NYC a family member of mine was chit-chatting with a police officer in Times Square when they began discussing travel and vacations. The police officer said that she had never been out of the city in her entire life. He laughed and she…

There are theories on what will happen in these mega structures as they may be capable of having a person go from cradle to grave without ever actually leaving the building. From a practicality standpoint they would need to build their own schools, and other needs for a city, and hold a population that would rival an…

It does look appealing.