Letter of the Day: Change behaviour with environment

While house hunting, my daughter’s family mentioned they were considering buying an acreage. I discouraged her, saying she would regret the lost time and money spent commuting for work, extracurricular trips, and recreation. She explained they could afford the house with no neighbours. The equivalent urban house with neighbours would be in a neighbourhood littered with needles and tagged with graffiti. I stopped discouraging her because I knew my grandchildren would be shaped for better or