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Such as? All of the populous US cities have terrible congestion and high cost of living. The ones that aren't congested and have lower costs are smaller. Unl
by wffurr 7y ago
Such as? All of the populous US cities have terrible congestion and high cost of living.
The ones that aren't congested and have lower costs are smaller.
Unless you mean something else by "popular."
- chroem- 7y agoLook at many of the large/fast growing/cheap cities throughout Texas and the southeastern US that have comparatively light congestion for their size.
- learc83 7y agoWhat cities are these? Most of the large southern cities I'm aware have terrible traffic. Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Tampa, Nashville--they all score terribly for traffic. The only reason they don't rank at the very top is because they are in fairly low population density areas.
- rayiner 7y agoTerrible relative to where? Austin has an average commute of 25 min. Stockholm is 34 minutes: https://www.thelocal.se/20120528/41090 https://www.thelocal.se/20120528/41090. London is 37 minutes each way: https://www.businessleader.co.uk/how-long-is-the-daily-work-commute-for-the-average-londoner/44325 https://www.businessleader.co.uk/how-long-is-the-daily-work-....
- learc83 7y agoOther US cities. According to this article Austin is the 14th most congested city in the US. http://www.businessinsider.com/us-cities-with-most-traffic-2019-2019-2 http://www.businessinsider.com/us-cities-with-most-traffic-2...
- rayiner 7y agoWrong in both counts. The largest US cities are among the cheapest large cities in the developed world: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4758/38890153315_bb29ac1b6c_b.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4758/38890153315_bb29ac1b6c_b..... Commutes are also shorter. Average commutes in London is 74 minutes (round trip): https://www.thekingsferry.co.uk/industry-news/article/commuters/average-london-commute-stands-at-74-minutes-a-day/801846579 https://www.thekingsferry.co.uk/industry-news/article/commut.... Houston and Dallas are 20-25 minutes less: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-doesn-t-have-the-worst-commute-time-in-13187899.php https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/.... DC is the second worst in the US, and still about 10 minutes shorter than London: https://wtop.com/traffic/2017/04/dc-area-has-2nd-longest-average-commute-in-america/ https://wtop.com/traffic/2017/04/dc-area-has-2nd-longest-ave...
- waqf 7y agoThat's cheapest compared to median income, which is a valid thing to measure but probably not what GP meant. And also it's only comparing very large cities in ~8 selected countries (no Paris or Rhine–Ruhr, for example). (Source of your data, 2019 edition since I couldn't find 2017: http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf)
- rayiner 7y agoHow else do you define “high cost of living” except relative to median incomes?
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- bryanrasmussen 7y agoI guess you could compare it between cities but as Mark Twain demonstrated in A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court that would be extremely silly.
- Zach_the_Lizard 7y ago