Because they're subsidized to Fuck and city costs are inflated. Suburbs are ecological nightmares, and cannot continue to exist if you want a green earth in 80 years.

[–] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How are suburbs subsidized and how are city costs inflated?

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

City costs are inflated by exploitative landlords.

Suburb costs are subsidized by basically all the infrastructure for them; none of it pays for itself. Not the roads not the wiring not the water and sewer. Yes I know everywhere has roads, but suburbs demand a high standard of them and don't produce anything with them.

Youre not being space efficient like a city, or (whatever degree of) self sufficient like the country, so everything is just car trips, any time you leave the house. Like in OP.