Posted on 03/30/2024 3:40:44 PM PDT by dennisw
John-Robert Rodríguez moved to Culdesac, a car-free community in Arizona, in October 2023.
He's never liked driving and believes that fewer cars can foster more community. Life at Cudesac is great, but he still has to deal with the car-dependent world outside its gates.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with John-Robert Rodríguez, 24, a teacher in Tempe, Arizona, who lives in the car-free community Culdesac. Rodríguez moved to Culdesac, which has about 150 residents so far but will eventually house 1,000 residents in 760 units, in October 2023 from Pflugerville, Texas, after growing up in Florida. The conversation was edited for length and clarity.
I heard about Culdesac when it was still in development. I went for a tour in August of 2023, and it looked just like the mockups. It looked just like how the community said it was going to look all those years ago.
I don't drive. I have a license, but I don't drive.
I moved in October.
When you start removing the dependency on cars, you start seeing more people. When you go to a city, the more cars that you see on the road, the fewer people you'll see on the sidewalks. People need to be out and about in order to build the community.
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They want us all live like that.
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev’s dream!
Let us all go back to stone age!
BTW, the rent is not that bad and they offer bunch of freebies. I am not sure they are doing that well.
And, even if the living was free, the perspective of living in Woke neighborhood is pretty scarry!
Wasn’t there are at least Twilight Zone episode like that?
Don’t venture outside of the neighborhood.
Great neighborhood!
Between Islamic center and Tattoo parlor.
All you need in walking distance!
BTW, there is no lake, even if the picture suggest there is one.
Culdesac Tempe, 2025 E Apache Blvd, Tempe, AZ 85281.
Not a town, just a dead-end...
You know the greatest thing about a car? If the shiite goes down, you can get out of town.
I wouldn't fit in. I've become a people recluse. My other life made me that way. It works very well for me. I still go out of my compound and do things but when possible will avoid others like a plague. Too many nut jobs, freaks, dings, losers, liars, leftist and those with bad intent.
And they never even read about London, Paris, Tokyo, or the rest of the cities in the world.
Huh?
Works PERFECT, if you don’t live in a ‘diverse’ country.
And it smels like manure (was there in summer)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ni4Unv6GPp7M/
I watched it all thanks! The older man speaks with an East European accent. He knows what is going on.
When the world is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC8vxXC0UMc
Just wait until he gets a girlfriend (presuming he’s not a pervert) or gets bored with playing with himself and wants to go somewhere. Imagine the poor kids being taught by him.
The place looks like Gaza of a year ago.
Jammed up.
How does he plan to provide for his security on the light rail?
“Works PERFECT, if you don’t live in a ‘diverse’ country.”
There are four Scandinavian nations. Finland is where you need to go. It is the least immigrant friendly nation in Scandinavia.
Making them the least immigrants friendly nation in Europe. Even freakin Iceland has a few mosques. Can you believe this??
If what I’m seeing is accurate, Culdesac is renters-only, no home owners, prices starting at $2100/month.
And lots of human sweat.
Makes you understand why we switched to motorized vehicles.
They actually smell better.
How do the people there get deliveries? Does Prime deliver with a wheelbarrow? If someone needs a heavy part do the have a donkey carry it on a cart? How about a week’s groceries? How do those get from the store to the house? The place sounds like a greenie weenie’s impractical dream.
I live in a small town in northwest Indiana and I can walk to bars, restaurants, coffee houses, the movies, the post office, church, my barber shop, a small grocer, the drugstore, the library, a great park on the shore of Lake Michigan, among other places, and see people on the streets all the time. Of course, most of us here have cars and we can get out of town if we need or want to. The best of both worlds.
It is not that far to anything. You walk or ride a bike or you have a horse drawn cart.
I know for the shut ins of the world who are unable to fathom actually getting out of their gaming chairs and getting into the sunlight it probably sounds horrible.
Which is why they are not obliged to go there.
People who are not agoraphobics generally do enjoy it though.
Not understanding this
younger generation.
Getting your license when
I was 16 was a right of
passage. Something we
yearned for and were
desperate to get.
Didn’t even need insurance
back then, and you could
cruise with your gal
sittin’ next you, all
night long on two bucks
worth of gas.
What’s this kid gonna do
when he asks his gal out
for a malt?
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