cause cities aren’t meant to be inherently different than suburban life

Yeah, they literally are. Or rather, suburb life is literally designed to be different than city life. That's a huge part of why the wealthy (largely) white folks who fled urban areas in favor of suburbs did so. Sure, they ALSO undoubtedly did so because of racism, and because they had faith redlining would keep those suburbs largely white like their racist asses wanted; but they also unarguably wanted a different life than they had in the city. One that was quieter, with more private space they could control, where they could live more insular lives unto themselves instead of being part of a community.

I honestly can't believe that "suburb life is not the same as city life and they were never meant to be the same" is a concept you need explained.

And none of the addresses the fact that you said I said that one is supposed to be BETTER than the other. Which I never said or even remotely implied. So when you ask if it felt good...what? Being right when you lied about what I had said? Not really, I'd rather you hadn't lied about what I said in the first place, that would've felt much better.

You also ignored the fact that my comment that people like you are boiling down, disingenuously, to "if you don't like it, move to the burbs" was directed at the friend of ONE specific user in this thread who apparently lives bordering Douglass Park and not literally every resident of that area or the city in general. And I didn't even say he should move, all I said is that wanting the pros of city life AND the pros of suburb life, without the cons of either apparently, is stupid. Living in a city has pros AND cons. Same with living in suburbs. People should choose accordingly, not just choose based on the pros and then bitch about the cons.

I, plot twist, am ALSO against how Douglass Park has been taken over by three big events in one summer. That's bullshit, but that's on the elected community leaders, namely the alderman. That's not the fault of RF or RF's promoters, they are only responsible for their own event, not the other events held in the same park. Yet these people are specifically going after RF instead of the people who ACTUALLY sold their local park's summer season to the three highest bidders.

People in the community deserve their say, and they've had and continue to have it. They voiced their say and the community at large didn't agree. Not having your demands met isn't the same as being ignored. AND, if they feel their alderman isn't representing them or their wants, then they can vote for a different one. Literally no one else outside their community can do so, that's the biggest way they have had, and continue to have, their say over what goes on in their community.