>>13072499Yeah indeed. Being even in the suburbs a bit outside of the city is tolerable. But I lived in apartments directly in the inner city for the vast majority of my life. Always felt so disturbing and unnatural. And yes big truth as to having no privacy. Even in your room the window just looked out into either a parking lot with people always hanging around or onto highway. I remember eating mushrooms when I was 15 and realizing how disruptive it was to my thoughts and peace of mind. Ever since that I was always acutely aware of it and desperately wanted to escape. I think the worst part was having no car, so no matter how long I walked in any direction, it was just more urban sprawl. My school had thousands of students. I think it did a lot of damage to my ability to bond with others as well, since every social interaction was inherently shallow and low investment, since every person is easily replaceable. You are just a face in a crowd.
Not to mention the pollution. I read many studies on the effects of living somewhere with lots of traffic. It even impacts the way your brain forms and can cause cognitive issues. And mostly I lived right on major roads with hundreds of not thousand+ cars driving by per hour, and then many factories etc as well were close by.
One thing I noticed immediately upon moving out of the city is that I feel more energetic when I wake up. A problem that I'd had for years was waking up in the morning and still feeling exhausted. I wonder if that wasn’t because of the low quality air.
There is also the water quality to consider. With so much waste being generated, the only way for them to treat water was to basically chorlinate the hell out of it, so when you turned on the tap water, the room smelled like a swimming pool. I would never subject my kids to growing up in such an environment.
