If you disallow discussions about the context of living car free, what you wind up with is a discussion of trailers. We have to consider the Big Picture. And the main thing about the Big Picture is...well, it's really really big.

I'd love to see more welcoming and less criticism, but all it takes is a handful of highly opinionated, emotionally charged, vocal posters to train wreck a thread. And it's not as if those posters are ill intentioned, it's just that if someone happens to be grumpy, a point & counterpoint discussion can turn so easily into tit for tat. Actually, it seems to me that the occasional train wrecks that occur here now are much less of a problem than they were a year or so ago.