Some community gardens are in street plots, on roofs,
green walls of buildings, and even inside buildings.
Private gardens are on rooftops and balconies.

@AnonySchmoose
Balcony gardens can’t be much more than token. A person would have a hard time feeding themselves that way.
I think it’s good for people to have options, but that arrangement wouldn’t work for me.

@skado
If balconies are big, there can be wall gardens there too.
You can grow a lot of greens on wall gardens.

@AnonySchmoose
I realize not everyone wants to grow all of their own food, so I’m in favor of that mode of living being available for those who want it, but I need more nature and less people.

@skado
The benefit of solitude cannot be underestimated.
'To each his own' is a healthful credo.

It's mainly illusion & delusion in order to fool the rest of us non Americans & make us jealous. The stupidity of doing what they want to do to the rest of the world to their own is no longer secret simply evidence of their duplicity & stupidity

It is colloquially called the "Mushroom" method of political philosophy
You keep them in the dark and feed them a regular diet of bullshit.

@Fernapple
I wonder quite often how many of us survive here too.

Unfortunately uncontrolled capitalism again.

@AnonySchmoose no. Simply greedy stupidity allowing it in the first place.

@FrayedBear
Greedy stupidly = unregulated capitalism

@AnonySchmoose it doesn't even have to be that extreme.

It is tiring to travel to the market when it is hot and the supermarket is crowded and everyone is in a hurry.

Mmmmm hot and ,hopefully humid, weather is my desired lifestyle..

Having a safe place to live should be a right, but the capitalist societies of the world have peddled relentlessly the myth that owning your own home is an asset, when five minutes thought proves to anyone with a functioning brain cell that it is a liability.
But of course talking about rights, human, civil or legal, in the eyes of the capitalist nations makes me at best a socialist at worst a "pinko fag commie bastard"

@LenHazell53 Who pays for the upkeep of the safe place?

I confess, I like the privacy and the quiet of having a single-family home. BUT, it comes with non-stop chores and expenses. I could travel more and engage in more fun activities if I weren't married to a fucking house.

@mischl same here…working at changing that. It’s not going to happen as soon as I’d hoped, but by this time next year, I should be somewhere else.

The capitalist consumerism mentality is bound to implode on itself and globally destroy many lives.

@AnonySchmoose One might think so, even hope so, but unfortunately the idea that ultra capitalism is "our way of life" and so is intrinsically tied up with "freedom" has been so successfully propagated over an extended length of time that people are willing to vote against their best interests, blame themselves for their own oppression and even die to preserve the status quo that is sacrificing them to the furtherance of the all might $

@LenHazell53
The question is how to dissolve their illusions of feeling lucky to be oppressed by status quo.

@AnonySchmoose It would be a good start if a way could be found to end the demonisation of compassion, human rights and care as tools of the dangerous "left" "Socialists" and "political extremists"

Have heard about a few American places, cities where people are trying to have zoning freedom to develop livable communities. Don't remember where they are though.

@AnonySchmoose wish it were happening in Boston..

@Charlene
There are community communes in buildings, but they didn't extend to outdoor neighborhoods.
They were doing that in San Francisco in the 70's. Am trying to remember more examples.

I’ll be taking a look, come spring!

Have watched videos about communities that
have renovated such neighborhoods for mixed use.
Is being done, yet America needs far more of that.