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Research Triangle Park in Raleigh-Durham was designed along these lines. It's very tranquil, but difficult to go anywhere for lunch as the drive just takes too
by chiph 10y ago
Research Triangle Park in Raleigh-Durham was designed along these lines. It's very tranquil, but difficult to go anywhere for lunch as the drive just takes too long. Which might have been part of the master plan all along...
- beachstartup 10y agoanother idea from the early 20th century: company towns running on company scrip.
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoPretty sure these run on good old $USD. Company towns were either a necessity or in cases, a Utopian effort.
- galago 10y agoI think beachstartup may be referring to mechanisms that create dependency.
- beachstartup 10y agowhy ruin the pedant party with all this higher level thinking?
- wizardforhire 10y agoPretty sure company towns were run by greedy corporations that could get away with their creation in a time without legislation. A lot of good people and small children lost their lives fighting company towns. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre ...as for the U.S. Dollar argument. Previously on Hacker news https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10455681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10455681
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoRe: Ludlow : "...the culmination of a bloody widespread strike..." My grandfather was involved in the Mid-Continent strike, which wasn't as bloody but he was blackballed from working in oil again. J.D. Rockfeller II was a notorious Social Darwinist ( the founder of some Social Hygiene organization so probably also a eugenicist ). Eugenics was a Progressive idea. Many company owners - Henry Ford being one of them - ran company towns for Progressive/Utopian reasons. Some mining towns would not have existed had the miners had to have arranged their own housing and depend on random strangers to provide supply. Of course some had to "sold their soul to the company store" but it's like most things - a spectrum and not a given. And it was not all just about greed. It was more likely to be about stubbornness, anyway.
- bunderbunder 10y agoPart of the reason I refused to relocate to Raleigh is that the office was so isolated. It wasn't just getting food, though that was certainly a hassle whenever I was visiting that office. It was also the infeasibility of finding a place to live that would leave me with less than an hour total time spent in the car per day. Let alone a location that would let me walk or take a bus to work, which is my strong preference. I'm in a dense city now, and my total commute is admittedly longer than an hour, but half of it is walking and the other half is reading a book or knitting, so it hardly ever feels like a waste of time.
- foobarian 10y agoI ruled out RTP because of the 4hr round-trip to the ocean. Too bad, the sea shore there is beautiful. [Edit: clarified round trip.]
- GiorgioG 10y ago4 hour drive to the ocean? Does your car have a 30mph speed limiter? Raleigh to Wrightsville Beach is 2 Hours, 1 min according to Google Maps.
- mirekrusin 10y agoSo 4h per day drive, unless you sleep under the desk.
- TylerE 10y agoHuh? Even all the way from Durham you can be in Wilmington in 2 hours and a few minutes. 4 hours will get you almost all the way to Charleston, SC which is way way way far away.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoPresumably foobarian would also like to get back from the ocean also.