More density arguments...

So having just returned last week from Chi-town, I feel there is another point to be made about urban density and its value to humanity. The suburbs suck. They are a pusillanimous attempt to offer newly-affluent farmer's kids all the comforts of open spaces without actually being on a farm. The promise of suburban living is that you will live without compromise, but the fact is that anyone who speaks about anything without compromise is either stupid or lying. If they're lying, you need nothing else. If they are stupid, consider that they are too stupid to comprehend basic thermodynamics. Or, more to the point, to accept the truism that nothing is free. And these days, even that promise is told half-heartedly. People want to own homes with a postage stamp of yard. That's it. They accept that this home will probably be made of cheap materials and all around ugly, but they buy because they believe they should. And then they live in hellholes made of cloned space and never ask why they are so miserable.

My dad did in fact graduate from law school. Pictures to come, I will be experimenting with Picasa. Yay.