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“You just spent a gallon of gas to get a gallon of milk.”

March 5, 2012by Sven 8 Comments

This innocuous-sounding quote from the recent SF Chronicle article Transportation boosts cost of living in suburbs very poignantly describes not only the structural problems of suburban life but gets to […]

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