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While that may be true, it's also passing the buck since there are a lot of economically productive cities where commuting is practical and rents are cheap.
by chroem- 9y ago
While that may be true, it's also passing the buck since there are a lot of economically productive cities where commuting is practical and rents are cheap.
- vertex-four 9y agoHonestly speaking - the concept of nearly every person in America commuting by car into work, home, and then having to get back in the car to go to any sort of entertainment, is something to solve on its own. "Let's have people commuting more into SF so we can keep building suburbs empty of anything to do" seems a bizarre solution to the problem of SF being a hotspot for work. American commutes are getting longer every year as it is, and hour-long commutes by car are becoming more and more of a thing for more and more people. And this might be on top of a school run before work! In the affordable housing I've lived in, we had malls, parks, cinemas, skate parks, all within walking distance. Pedestrian bridges over any busy roads so you could take your young children everywhere they'd need to go without hopping in a car. The result of the social housing boom of the last century in the UK. Work might be somewhere else, but you'd take a bus or a train there, depending on what city you live in. It's unlikely that there'd be staff parking where you work, anyway, unless you worked at an office on the edge of town, even if you had space for a car at home.