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> I live in a city because I don't want to spend 20% of my waking life stuck in traffic. That's an effect of too many businesses being concentrated in city cen
by pif 10y ago
> I live in a city because I don't want to spend 20% of my waking life stuck in traffic.
That's an effect of too many businesses being concentrated in city centre, too. Disperse jobs as well as people, and life will be better.
- lazaroclapp 10y agoBusinesses are concentrated in city centers because that's where the people (i.e. potential employees) are. Even better, there is a robust market for both employees and employers, meaning people are not stuck in an area where only one company exists and everyone living in a 20 miles radius is not either a coworker or someone working a service industry job that gets half of its revenue from people working at your one available office employer. I don't think it would do much for ones quality of life to have to move every time one changes jobs.
- pif 10y agoYou presented an extreme vision. I was talking about spreading businesses around in suburbs, just like malls.
- CalRobert 10y agoSprawling cities welcome you with their better quality of life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles See also: Atlanta, Houston.