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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
It's more than that though. In the rest of the world they have rural and regional transport. But that doesn't mean you can roll up and put down a 3000 sqft bungalow with a quarter acre of turf on your half acre lot. They have a ton of rules on development in their satellite communities and work a lot harder than we do to avoid sprawl.
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Well, actually you can. Provided you are rich enough and (often) have the right connections.
I do think that many other countries do do planning way better than we do, but one of the reasons that enables this is their ingrained elitism and socio-economic stratification and polarization.
These aren't always good things either.
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