But that is one of the reasons for living in them. OK, I am not objective because I grew up in the country, tried to live in a city, and was miserable in one. But people who do not want to huddle enjoy living a decentralized life.
When the nearby city extended mass transit to one of its suburbs, the very first day the station opend, six cars were stolen from my sister's apartment building's lot. This is why people do not want anything to do with cities once they have adapted to suburbia or exurbia. The cities are filled with not-very-nice people. Bad people run them.
Bad people often run the suburbs also (Scum floats), but they are much easier to uncover and flush. The political machines are smaller and clumsier at hiding what they do.
“But people who do not want to huddle enjoy living a decentralized life.”
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