In other words, "Drive until you qualify." This was certainly big in the 90s and 00s and still happens a great deal today but I think people have become less sa

In other words, "Drive until you qualify." This was certainly big in the 90s and 00s and still happens a great deal today but I think people have become less sanguine about it because: 1) people are more aware of the serious detriment to quality of life a long commute by car produces, 2) in many places, how far you have to drive keeps getting longer (or the roads keep getting slower), and 3) too much decentralization can close off opportunities that are theoretically in the same metropolis by pushing the commute from being arduous to being unacceptable. So the reason you moved to the metropolis (access to a large number of opportunities) evaporates as you move further to one edge.