The many social and psychological benefits of low-car cities
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The Loneliness Epidemic
When we first moved here as complete outsiders, not understanding the language, got to know our neighbors immediately next door to us and across the street from us. And he became part of a sort of, i wouldn't say necssarily our friend network, but definitly our acquaintance network. Is someone who genuinely wanted to communicate with us. But it's just sort of, these slower environments force people to want to engage. We lose something as a society when we don't have that social environment to see our neighbors,. To be around people different from us, from different backgrounds or different ages.
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