Single family, detached housing on otherwise empty lots, in a low density, residential only suburb is not affordable housing.

Still way more dangerous than just not chasing. A traffic violation is not worth putting the lives of any bystanders at risk.

Fetchez la vache!

Now add in the cost of a car

Ice is a mineral. So molten ice, i.e. water, is lava. Humans are mostly made of water, much more than they are made of DNA. So you are more molten rock than you are genetic material. And people are some sort of water golem.