I feel the need to clarify my last two posts.
I intended them tongue firmly planted in cheek, but sometimes that kind of thing doesn't transmit across the internets.
A#1, I think suburbs can be green. I just personally prefer to live in cities. Which can be (in some cases) not so green. So.
A#2, I don't think yards are bad or un-green. Nor Yosemite, nor pot smokers. Ritual suicide on the other hand? Not a huge fan. I'm agnostic on Oprah.
So where do I think you should live?
I think you should live where you are happy. Really, truly happy.
Because the truth is, I think there are some decisions we have to make about ourselves and our lives and we can't make them from a martyr-for-the-Earth point of view. We make them because they are the right decisions for us.
The problem becomes when we fail to recognize that. When we fail to recognize how our own internal preferences shape how we think. Then we become smug and say things like how cities are so sustainable and how awful suburbs are. And we believe we are superior because we live in cities.
And that's just b.s.
I can guarantee you, no one writing an article about how cities are more sustainable than suburbs is someone who REALLY wants to live in a suburb but is living in a city against their will because they think it's better for the Earth.
Mostly, when we make sweeping generalizations like suburbs are better than cities or that cities are better than rural areas, we're just validating our own personal preferences. Because the truth is that there is no way for me to say what is better for you, Joe Schmoe.
Live where you are happy, and do your best, okay? Or do as good as you can considering we are all messy, imperfect beings. (Let's not talk about the sheer volume of plastic in my trash can now.)
Hope that clarifies things.
Ruchi
I intended them tongue firmly planted in cheek, but sometimes that kind of thing doesn't transmit across the internets.
A#1, I think suburbs can be green. I just personally prefer to live in cities. Which can be (in some cases) not so green. So.
A#2, I don't think yards are bad or un-green. Nor Yosemite, nor pot smokers. Ritual suicide on the other hand? Not a huge fan. I'm agnostic on Oprah.
So where do I think you should live?
I think you should live where you are happy. Really, truly happy.
Because the truth is, I think there are some decisions we have to make about ourselves and our lives and we can't make them from a martyr-for-the-Earth point of view. We make them because they are the right decisions for us.
The problem becomes when we fail to recognize that. When we fail to recognize how our own internal preferences shape how we think. Then we become smug and say things like how cities are so sustainable and how awful suburbs are. And we believe we are superior because we live in cities.
And that's just b.s.
I can guarantee you, no one writing an article about how cities are more sustainable than suburbs is someone who REALLY wants to live in a suburb but is living in a city against their will because they think it's better for the Earth.
Mostly, when we make sweeping generalizations like suburbs are better than cities or that cities are better than rural areas, we're just validating our own personal preferences. Because the truth is that there is no way for me to say what is better for you, Joe Schmoe.
Live where you are happy, and do your best, okay? Or do as good as you can considering we are all messy, imperfect beings. (Let's not talk about the sheer volume of plastic in my trash can now.)
Hope that clarifies things.
Ruchi
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All clear! :) Let's all go have a cocktail in our respective locales of choice.
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Well, Honestly... I prefer living in a suburb so close to the city you wouldn't know the difference. And I do. LOL, Burien is just south of Seattle and the neighborhoods here mimic the city neighborhoods. Everything but turnarounds in the streets. But I agree with you that it is important to live where you are happy!
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