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I moved to an Arizona oasis that banned cars. It's as dreamy as I expected, but it can be a struggle to venture outside it.
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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: 15minutecity; arizona; automotive; culdesac
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To: dennisw

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!


41 posted on 03/30/2024 4:15:15 PM PDT by AZJeep
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To: Prince of Space

Wasn’t there are at least Twilight Zone episode like that?
Don’t venture outside of the neighborhood.


42 posted on 03/30/2024 4:18:05 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: dennisw

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.


43 posted on 03/30/2024 4:19:29 PM PDT by AZJeep
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To: dennisw; Prince of Space

Culdesac Tempe, 2025 E Apache Blvd, Tempe, AZ 85281.

Not a town, just a dead-end...


44 posted on 03/30/2024 4:21:22 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Wuli

You know the greatest thing about a car? If the shiite goes down, you can get out of town.


45 posted on 03/30/2024 4:23:13 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: dennisw
I'll be just going home from work on the light rail and run into my literal next-door neighbor. We talk on the way or when walking back together, and I really enjoy that kind of casual friendship.

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.

46 posted on 03/30/2024 4:25:11 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dennisw
It is fun to watch young people discover things. In this case presumably they have never been in an older city before, like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, or a thousand other similar places in the US.

And they never even read about London, Paris, Tokyo, or the rest of the cities in the world.

47 posted on 03/30/2024 4:26:07 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
moater vehicle free.

Huh?

48 posted on 03/30/2024 4:29:52 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: dennisw

Works PERFECT, if you don’t live in a ‘diverse’ country.


49 posted on 03/30/2024 4:35:57 PM PDT by BobL (The USA was not built with DEI and it will not survive being forced into DEI)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

And it smels like manure (was there in summer)


50 posted on 03/30/2024 4:44:03 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Tree of Liberty is getting thirsty...)
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To: C210N

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


51 posted on 03/30/2024 4:46:51 PM PDT by dennisw (Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.)
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To: dennisw

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.


52 posted on 03/30/2024 4:49:49 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: dennisw

The place looks like Gaza of a year ago.

Jammed up.

How does he plan to provide for his security on the light rail?


53 posted on 03/30/2024 4:53:14 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: BobL

“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??


54 posted on 03/30/2024 4:55:40 PM PDT by dennisw (Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.)
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To: dennisw

If what I’m seeing is accurate, Culdesac is renters-only, no home owners, prices starting at $2100/month.


55 posted on 03/30/2024 4:57:54 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: goodnesswins
Yes it does.

And lots of human sweat.

Makes you understand why we switched to motorized vehicles.

They actually smell better.

56 posted on 03/30/2024 4:58:10 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

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.


57 posted on 03/30/2024 5:03:57 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: dennisw

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.


58 posted on 03/30/2024 5:08:42 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: from occupied ga
The entire area is about 4 miles.

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.

59 posted on 03/30/2024 5:14:06 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: dennisw

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?


60 posted on 03/30/2024 5:40:23 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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