This is the question posed on CityNerd video titled “Walkable Cities But They Keep Getting More Affordable”
If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?
Ray Delahanty answers the question in the 26 biggest US cities.
The analysis assumes the all-in cost of owning and operating a car is $1,000 per month, including purchase, insurance, fuel, and maintenance.
In the city, transportation costs might total about $250 per month for transit passes, biking, ride-hailing, and other small expenses.
This results in an effective $750 per month increase in the housing budget for city center residents who do not own a car.
The results of the video are quite interesting, as you can get more m² in walkable areas in most cities
First, the post is literally about moving into a city.
Secondly, we all know that rural places exist and you’re not being smart for bringing it up as if we don’t. This sub is based almost entirely on making cities, which are inherently worse off with car-centrism, into better places.
Lastly, there is zero reason why rural communities need to be that spread out. You 1000% can have mid-density, walkable towns and many older villages in North America have town centers that are built closer to that ideal. Those places were then surrounded by sprawl and suffer greatly for it.
The ignorance is your own.
The post is also about cars costing you a thousand dollars a month that you could be saving. That number is just silly. You can have a car for significantly less.
Also, you’re talking like you can just eliminate all of the small towns and housings and redo them to group them up. Any small places like that would still need to own vehicles in order to leave those small towns when needed. Not owning a vehicle is only a possibility in larger cities. Especially if you have to work outside of your town.
Saving the money by how, buddy? What other action comes along with that to make it so that one could be not needing the car?
And no, I am not saying that. I am saying that it does not need to be that way, and that we can build better when we build new things.
I genuinely can’t tell if you’re illiterate or simply stupid, but either way I’m going to go now because you are draining what little remaining hope for humanity I have from my body and I’d like to hang onto that.