To be fair, their cities were built decades and centuries before interstates were even a thing. Most of the interstates that “run right through downtown” didn’t run right through downtown when they were built. Not to say that improvements can’t or shouldn’t be made to freeway/highway infrastructure - they should. But…

> It can keep curious newbies out of the very realm these snobs claim to love.

You can care about other people without handing out keys to your home to anyone who wants in. There has to be some sort of process. There has to be.

Everyone has abs. All you need is a caloric deficit. You can achieve that by any combination of exercise and reduced calories. It doesn’t have to be a complete carb/sugar/fat cut. And you don’t have to go crazy with the pushups, crunches and cardio either. But once the body fat is down near a sub 18% (in most cases)…