Apartments also seem nice since it would mean being surrounded by people and more chances of doing stuff with them and having fun instead of being alone and isolated.
I grew up in a rural town of mostly farmland. The biggest store was a gas station owned by my grandfather’s half brother.
For college and a few years afterwards I lived in a city. I really liked being able to go do something at any point, but I hated the roommates, neighbors, city noise, ordinances, light pollution, traffic, cost of living, high crime rates, and low job prospects.
I moved back to an adjacent town and while there isn’t much to do, I pay less for my mortgage now than I would have for a studio apartment back in the city. I can see the stars, my neighbors don’t give a shit about me, traffic only exists to slow me down a few minutes a day, I can leave my doors unlocked, and since the pandemic I could change careers at any point.
It’s all about what people want. The grass is always greener, and the green is always green.
city noise, ordinances, light pollution, traffic, cost of living, high crime rates, and low job prospects.
Caused by capitalism, not urbanization
Hex, yeah. Truthfully I still like denser-style suburbs. Having a small garden plot while still being able to bike/bus most places is a dream of mine. Now many I know went with the extreme of McMansions, large tracts of boring lawn, and pricing out the local farmers. Hell, I wouldn’t even mind an apartment if it didn’t cost so damn much, but collective arrangements are near impossible with how capitalists have written the laws to favor landlords.
City noise and traffic are a direct product of the suburbs too, because if it weren’t for the suburbs you could actually have everyone commute by mass transit which solves those issues. Or just walk tbh
Although I’m not anti urbanization, in my experience, people were always the disruptive factor. Cars didn’t ever bother me, nor did mass transit. People though, people are loud assholes. They think that just because they don’t see other people that they can’t bother people, but they do.
