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What's something you want to stop doing but can't actually stop? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by 3volver@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago

Our US city (pop 180k, metro 600k) is just about to lose the last downtown grocery store.

Generations of city councils have allowed (or encouraged!) the demolition of all housing in the city core to replace it with parking lots.

There's almost no one left downtown so the city itself is dying. It's just kind of rotting away. There's currently at least some effort to reverse the trend, but the vice grip that car oriented everything has on people is terrifying to politicians.