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June 2025

The Case for Leading a More Localized Life
Forget climate, or any high-minded concern, sticking close to home can benefit you personally.
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Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️
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Instead of Moving to Europe, You Could Just Live More Like a European in the U.S.
The U.S. is a wildly diverse place that offers a range of lifestyles.
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Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️
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Kids are my Friendship Role Models
Admiring the ease and joy of childhood friendships and trying to bring a little of that into adult life.
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Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️
Everything is Downstream of Social Trust
And an anecdote about why it is broken.
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Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️
"Magical" Places
The rarest of places make you feel close to "God." The trad architecture accounts, I hate to say, sorta have a point.
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Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️
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Why do we want to write books?
It's hard. It's solitary. The pay is meh-to-exploitative. But still, I can't bring myself to fully discourage people either.
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Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️
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May 2025

It's Time for Some Nuance on the Debate about "Sprawl"
Housing people is #1. New greenfield housing doesn't have to be the same as it was in the 1990s.
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Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️
Good Things Can Happen to You in Your Life
The internet can give the (inaccurate!) impression that everything is bad. Don't believe it.
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Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️
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Cutting Fruit
The humble labor of middle class life and love
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Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️
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Tent Encampments and the Right to Public Space
Whose rights should prevail in places like public parks?
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Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️
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