"I'm An Antisocial Urbanist Living In Suburbia, Ask Me Anything"

The tension between living in a place and wanting it to change in the abstract

Today, I want to think through something I’ve realized I’m doing, living in a nice house in suburbia but having this set of ideas that kind of cuts against that. When I hear people talk about what a nice neighborhood we are, or “oh yeah, that’s a great place to live,” my gut reaction is “Oh, you must be one of those people who doesn’t want to build any …