> > > No, it's not mental retardation, although that could be a > > > factor. It's not walking. > > > > > > In this interesting article, a theory is proposed that > > > living in a town or city that is comfortable to walk around, > > > and thus encourages walking, creates a vastly different > > > cognitive mapping through which we see the universe than > > > does living in a place where you drive everywhere. I have > > > certainly seen the truth of this living in Europe, which > > > incidentally tends to produce people with more liberal > > > views, *except* in the burbs where people live distanced > > > from other people and have to drive wherever they're going. > > > Interesting theory. > > > > > > http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article03151301.aspx > > > > So little towns with low crime-rates should be bastions > > of liberalism? > > > > Yeah, right. > > turquoiseb: > Do you have a reading deficiency? > > In the cities, there is so much crime in many of them > that no one walks there, either, even in great walking > cities like San Francisco... > Let's see, the last time you were in San Francisco was what, thirty years ago? I walked all over SF with my grandkids just last year. Go figure.
Come to think of it, you haven't been much of anywhere neatn lately. Go figure. As a military brat, I've walked the same streets you have and I can say without the least hesitation: I'm never going back to any of those big shitholes. LoL!
