▲ 1306 ▼ This is my reason for joining "Fuck Cars" (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world 258 comments fedilink hide all child comments Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/1dh3net/because_of_the_anticonsumption_mindset_i_have_so/
[–] Aux@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I didn't know that NYC counts as a rural area, pardon me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) It turns out that over 97% of people in the US do not live in NYC. I don't know why you think when I cited rural America I would have even possibly been trying to cover NYC... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aux@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Because 97% of Americans don't live in rural areas. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Well, it gets trickier. About 20% unambiguously live in 'rural'. That's pretty significant and a lot of folks that get hit with this are in that 20%. But 'urban' can be... not very urban. So the example led with NYC, the biggest and most dense city by a wide wide margin. I live within one of the top 50 cities and need to rent a truck on occasion. I'll say for sake of argument roughly the top 50 cities represent areas that are so well served they shouldn't need a truck. Only 15% of the US population lives in the top 50 cities. Only 30% live in cities larger than 100,000 people, if you want to assert that relatively smaller cities 'should' be better served. So 70% of people live outside of cities over 100,000.... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) It turns out that over 97% of people in the US do not live in NYC. I don't know why you think when I cited rural America I would have even possibly been trying to cover NYC... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aux@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Because 97% of Americans don't live in rural areas. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Well, it gets trickier. About 20% unambiguously live in 'rural'. That's pretty significant and a lot of folks that get hit with this are in that 20%. But 'urban' can be... not very urban. So the example led with NYC, the biggest and most dense city by a wide wide margin. I live within one of the top 50 cities and need to rent a truck on occasion. I'll say for sake of argument roughly the top 50 cities represent areas that are so well served they shouldn't need a truck. Only 15% of the US population lives in the top 50 cities. Only 30% live in cities larger than 100,000 people, if you want to assert that relatively smaller cities 'should' be better served. So 70% of people live outside of cities over 100,000.... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Aux@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Because 97% of Americans don't live in rural areas. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Well, it gets trickier. About 20% unambiguously live in 'rural'. That's pretty significant and a lot of folks that get hit with this are in that 20%. But 'urban' can be... not very urban. So the example led with NYC, the biggest and most dense city by a wide wide margin. I live within one of the top 50 cities and need to rent a truck on occasion. I'll say for sake of argument roughly the top 50 cities represent areas that are so well served they shouldn't need a truck. Only 15% of the US population lives in the top 50 cities. Only 30% live in cities larger than 100,000 people, if you want to assert that relatively smaller cities 'should' be better served. So 70% of people live outside of cities over 100,000.... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Well, it gets trickier. About 20% unambiguously live in 'rural'. That's pretty significant and a lot of folks that get hit with this are in that 20%. But 'urban' can be... not very urban. So the example led with NYC, the biggest and most dense city by a wide wide margin. I live within one of the top 50 cities and need to rent a truck on occasion. I'll say for sake of argument roughly the top 50 cities represent areas that are so well served they shouldn't need a truck. Only 15% of the US population lives in the top 50 cities. Only 30% live in cities larger than 100,000 people, if you want to assert that relatively smaller cities 'should' be better served. So 70% of people live outside of cities over 100,000.... permalink fedilink source parent
