Reply #192: I think we are making a lot of assumptions about the people who

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live in certain places. People live near their job or where the schools are good for their kids or near their family, etc.

Cities are not an oasis from the consumerism of our society.

I am fully aware of the identical strip malls popping up everywhere, including in cities, but that doesn't make the people around them little robots. I don't like the fact that it is happening either.

I think a few different issues have been merged throughout the thread. We probably agree on most of the issues but it gets dangerous when we generalize about large groups of people.