What are you arguing about? I’m not saying to get rid of cars, or block off all the steeets to pedestrian only. Work on your reading comprehension. Wanting to get mad doesn’t mean the other person said whatever it is you want to get mad about  

I think you missed my point. I’m not saying we need to give up cars, I’m simply saying that our current car culture is relatively recent and shouldn’t be considered untouchable gospel. 

that’s a perfect summary of HOA’s. my boss is part of one.

They did.  They’re in the suburbs where they belong - but they also love to hear dipshits like this guy on FoxNews because it gives them boners in their pleated Dockers..

Nextdoor? Oh, you mean theresablackpersonoutsideshouldicallthepolice.com .

Pretty sure that’s the album cover for an early aughts punk band called the New Left Urbanists that never quite got off the ground.

Thank you for this write up. Its perfect and ill just link to it when i see some racist asshole (is there any other kind?) on Nextdoor cite this WSJ post.

small crossover that doesn’t suck...how about a cross between a car and a station wagon? We shall call it....a crosswagon.

How about the prior gen Rav-4 with the V6 option?

4WD as a “must-have” in a city w/ an average annual snowfall of 3"...

The glowing thumb thing can be accomplished in my car as well

This might be pedantic, but...

Shitting in a diaper is temporarily more convenient in the sense that you don’t have to drop what you’re doing, but that’s where the convenience ends, everything else in the process - taking the diaper off, cleaning your ass, disposing of the diaper, is far more inconvenient than shitting…

I don’t think you know what ad hominem means.

It’s true that cars were never stolen pre-fob, so this argument holds up to scrutiny. 

Land Rover Discovery. It was actually possible to use a lock picker to get into the car. However, once inside, the thieves weren’t able to start the car

I’m not exactly willing to spin the wheel on whether I get a good or bad version. Get an Avalon. Bulletproof cars with basically zero issues.

Commute time is a serious consideration, agreed. I spent 4 years in SoCal for a job beginning the summer of 2013 and when I returned...wow, traffic was noticeably worse into Portland and avoiding a nightmarish rush-hour traffic jam is almost unpredictable. Honestly, if I had a job in Beaverton I would want as close as…

I hear you, and so do a lot of others... which is why I5 and 205 are packed solid with traffic in the morning with people commuting in from Vancouver and points north. I choose to live in a small-ish place in the city rather than spend half of my life sitting in traffic just so I can have a big house with a yard in…

Move North across the river until you find something you can afford. Yes, many new subdivision homes in the PDX metro area are $550G - those aren’t starter right out of college homes or first time buyer homes. There are plenty of homes half that cost even in Clark County muchless Cowlitz county.

what are you talking about