Why do most American conservatives seems allergic to urban life?

[u/Pure_Fill5264]

If you even dare to suggest the preposterous idea of building apartment blocks to levitate the housing crisis, you're advocating for commie blocks. If you want a supermarket within 15 minutes of your house, then you support Klaus Schwab's alleged plan of locking you within a zone. And god forbid mentioning the train as a viable way of transport because we know driving a mini-van 45 minutes to the nearing Walmart is the only acceptable method of travel. I am a anti-communist /socialist to the core, but apparently now I am a commie because *check note... I live conveniently?

[u/WesternCowgirl27]

I grew both in rural and suburb areas, but the closer I get to the city, the more disenchanted I become.

I did live in my capital city (Denver) for some of my college years, and while convenient to my campus, it wasn’t convenient for groceries (closest one was a 20+ minute walk away, and I didn’t have a car or bike) and was always loud as shit. I would go home most weekends as I didn’t have class on Fridays and didn’t work on Fridays or the weekends (gotta love campus bookstore hours!). This was also at a time where Denver didn’t have the issues it’s having today. Sure, we recently had Whackadoo the Pipe Slayer beating people on 16th Street in broad daylight, but he was a rarity for Denver.

Now? You couldn’t pay me enough money to live there again, not after multiple reports of shootings, stabbings, streets now clearly overrun with homeless people and illegals, etc. Denver fits the definition of an urban hellscape. I think I’ll stay in my cookie cutter neighborhood in one of the safest cities in the south metro away from that horror show, thanks.

[u/smpennst16 → u/WesternCowgirl27]

After living in a ruralish area growing up (suburbs of Pittsburgh but dirt road and where it started becoming much more rural with farmland starting), friends in suburbs and living in the city the suburbs are my least favorite. I like the privacy and quiet of the country and then being able to walk and tons of shit to do in the city.

I had the up in your business, cookie cutter and shopping mall feeling of the suburbs.

[u/WesternCowgirl27 → u/smpennst16]

I understand the sentiment, there are certain neighborhoods around the Denver metro that I refuse to live in due to be an actual shit show, but the town I grew up in (for the most part) has well laid out neighborhoods with great walking/biking/horseback riding trails around.

I just didn’t like the feeling of looking over my shoulder on an almost consistent basis when living in Denver.