And of course this "efficiency" doesn't put, into reckoning, the stress of population density on cognition. Especially "diverse density".
Coming back from the military, I kept the same "look around at all times for threats" and it was absolutely exhausting.
"hyper-vigilance" I think is the term. Still have some of it but it's easier to live with in Norcal than the concrete jungles of the Los Angeles sprawl. Can focus on trees and the tweets of birds instead of innumerable pedestrians and cars and noise...
Coming back from the military, I kept the same "look around at all times for threats" and it was absolutely exhausting.
"hyper-vigilance" I think is the term. Still have some of it but it's easier to live with in Norcal than the concrete jungles of the Los Angeles sprawl. Can focus on trees and the tweets of birds instead of innumerable pedestrians and cars and noise...