Everything is far from everything. Downtown is single-story buildings spaced out by vacant lots. All your friends live far away. It’s suspiciously convenient for a police state to control people who literally can’t reach each other without traveling through long gauntlets of cameras on roads where you must have a license and aren’t allowed to walk.
It’s cause property tax encourages sprawl.
Everything is far from everything. Downtown is single-story buildings spaced out by vacant lots. All your friends live far away. It’s suspiciously convenient for a police state to control people who literally can’t reach each other without traveling through long gauntlets of cameras on roads where you must have a license and aren’t allowed to walk.
It’s more than that; it’s that the zoning code mandates sprawl. It is literally illegal to build walkable developments in most places.