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> My point is simple: you are not being forced to live in a city.

But that has nothing to do with anything. I never once said or even implied that I, or anyone else, was.

> It helped highlight the irrelevance and myopia of your post.

I re-read the thread and come away with a different conclusion. My post was neither myopic or off-topic IMO.

> Your concluding sentence was "Rural living is for me". Do you see the connection now?

You misunderstood my point and concluded that i was implying that everyone is being forced to live in cities. You are being argumentative, I was making conversation.

> Why did you cherry-pick one example the poster gave about what he enjoys about living in a city and go off on a rant about all of the things you can do in a backyard but not in a park?

Re-read the parent, troll.



>I re-read the thread and come away with a different conclusion. My post was neither myopic or off-topic IMO.

The thread is about policy. Every post before yours in the tree you responded to discusses the motivations of people, particularly people in large CA metropolitan areas, for supporting particular policies, or discusses the impacts of the policies themselves. I attempted to respond to your post as though you were trying to say something relevant to policy, and in so doing, tried to explain that your personal preferences are not necessarily a good guide to policy, particularly in the areas in question.

You have pulled the less important sentences out of my posts and chosen to repeatedly attack me personally:

>You are being argumentative

>Re-read the parent, troll.

In fairness, it was not the post you responded to that mentioned parks as an amenity of cities, but the one before that. I regret that my attempt at a humorous illustration seems to have been missed.

It doesn't seem like further exposition on my part is likely to help you see what you missed. Please understand that there are many people like you who interject these sort of unhelpful anti-city anecdotes in discussions about local land use regulations, so I showed a little annoyance.




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