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04-19-06, 06:53 AM
To be honest, if you move out into the burbs due to increased wealth forcing you to drive on crowded highways, all I can say is, you asked it. It's often these same individuals who complain about gas prices, but they have nobody to blame but themselves. It's incredible how little people think about these things until it's too late.
Around here, people don't live in the burbs primarily because of increased wealth. They live in the burbs because of ignorance - fear, cultural programming, and the sort of stupidity you mention - such as not considering that they will be driving everywhere and believing that the suburbs are a "good" place to live.
I agree more with the consultant's statement about auto companies "enticing" people to buy big, stupid vehicles. I just don't understand those purchasing decisions except as the product of vehicle advertising having tied in to some very basic and irrational human urges.
Those choices, combined with the cultural norm that driving everywhere is a necessary feature of everyday life, result in absurd behaviors: living in places that require a car to go everywhere, driving super inefficient cars, not grasping that gas prices will go up in the future, and pushing for legislation that would supposedly reduce gas prices. Supposedly normal decisions that result in behavior that appears insance.
Around here, people don't live in the burbs primarily because of increased wealth. They live in the burbs because of ignorance - fear, cultural programming, and the sort of stupidity you mention - such as not considering that they will be driving everywhere and believing that the suburbs are a "good" place to live.
I agree more with the consultant's statement about auto companies "enticing" people to buy big, stupid vehicles. I just don't understand those purchasing decisions except as the product of vehicle advertising having tied in to some very basic and irrational human urges.
Those choices, combined with the cultural norm that driving everywhere is a necessary feature of everyday life, result in absurd behaviors: living in places that require a car to go everywhere, driving super inefficient cars, not grasping that gas prices will go up in the future, and pushing for legislation that would supposedly reduce gas prices. Supposedly normal decisions that result in behavior that appears insance.