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I don't really see what self-driving cars and plans and 3D printers have to do with it. You can have friends and be near everything you need in a small town of
by kylec 10y ago
I don't really see what self-driving cars and plans and 3D printers have to do with it. You can have friends and be near everything you need in a small town of 20,000 people. They have grocery stores and hospitals and pretty much anything else you'd need. Amazon will still deliver in 2 days with Prime shipping.
What I'd like to avoid are the large financial costs associated with living in a large city. I'd also like to avoid other issues caused by large population density, like the fact that traffic is always backed up getting to the ocean on the weekends here. Also, people like me leaving cities would mean that there would be less demand for housing, less traffic, etc for the people that want to stay. Everyone wins.
- rm_-rf_slash 10y agoIf that's what you want and you don't mind shit weather, move to Ithaca, NY. I saw what the Valley had to offer when I worked at Apple and came away with the same grumblings you mention. Upstate New York in general is a great place for the kind of living you describe. For not much money you could buy - or even better build - a home in the middle of nowhere with a 30 minute drive into town with very light traffic most times of the day. Like you say, everything you need is relatively close, and Amazon Prime still delivers in 2 days. You just have to put up with the weather.
- kylec 10y agoThe weather wouldn't bother me, but I wouldn't be able to move out of SV without giving up my current job and salary. That's the part I'd like to change - I want to separate the decision of where to work from the decision of where to live. Once I can do that, there are a lot of places that I would be interested in moving to.