<i>Suburbs also make kids totally dependent on their parents to get to activities, friends, etc.</i><p>[Highly urban-oriented personality here, decidedly with you in general ...]<p>Here, a purely rationalistic and quantitative analysis might not back this up. It&#x27;s not necessarily clear that there are fewer vehicle-miles travelled and fossil fuels expended in stocking every corner grocery in a dense urban metropolis vs. one 3000-mile salad backhauled to a Walmart SuperCenter to which everyone within a 10 mi radius has to drive. Pound for pound, the latter approach might actually be more cost and resource-efficient in a lot of cases.<p>But of course, there&#x27;s more to life than robotic efficiency.