The root cause

[piece-itpete]

It's one thing to have a neighborhood collection point that you can walk to, but then you'd need neighborhoods where anything is in walking distance.

The little town in England I'm familiar with is like that. But even they are starting to spread out (over their teeny country ). Like there is now a supermarket on the outskirts of town, etc.

We're much much too exceptional to live in those smallish damp houses with freezing bathrooms

Pete