• sexy_peach@feddit.orgOP
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    5 hours ago

    I become more and more convinced that city dwellers have no clue what it is like to live anywhere else.

    It’s just that the vast majority of people live in cities. So whatever some rural people are doing - good. But maybe y’all need to cook and not expect some poor person to work 80h/week hauling your soggy fast food around just to break even - that’s not far from slavery.

    If you can regularly afford delivery you’re certainly way better off than them.

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      4 hours ago

      Yes and no, most people do live in cities (if we’re still talking about the US), but a minority of those cities are actually walkable. And many cities are limited in what areas are walkable.

      It’s hard to find data on this obviously, so I can only speak anecdotally. Take a city like Dallas for example the core portion can be walkable, but it very quickly turns into un-walkable sprawl. Cities like Seattle and New York are very walkable. Then you have cities like Jacksonville and Orlando that are absolutely un-walkable.

      I’d wager that more population lives in this un-walkable areas since the cores usually host buisnesses instead of apartments

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      2 hours ago

      A city may contain as few as 1 person. Cities are not defined by their total population or by their population density. Large cities are NOT the norm. You’re the exception. You’re the special case. You’re privileged. You’re rude. You’re out of touch. Maybe travel.

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          (5) The term “city” means (A) any unit of general local government which is classified as a municipality by the United States Bureau of the Census or (B) any other unit of general local government which is a town or township and which, in the determination of the Secretary, (i) possesses powers and performs functions comparable to these associated with municipalities, (ii) is closely settled, and (iii) contains within its boundaries no incorporated places as defined by the United States Bureau of the Census which have not entered into cooperation agreements with such town or township to undertake or to assist in the undertaking of essential community development and housing assistance activities. Source

          • 42 USC § 5302(a)(5)

          Absolutely no population requirement