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Eh. I strongly suspect that cheap, quick, self-driving (solar-sourced) electric cars and VR + seamless telecommuting is going to nip urbanization in the bud an
by bpodgursky 7y ago
Eh. I strongly suspect that cheap, quick, self-driving (solar-sourced) electric cars and VR + seamless telecommuting is going to nip urbanization in the bud and send people back to the burbs.
Maybe 20-30 YO college graduates will do a tour of duty in SF/NY for fun, but nobody in their 30s+ is going want to go to bed listening to their upstairs neighbors party, their downstairs neighbors screw, and the homeless schizophrenic outside systematically shatter glass bottles on the sidewalk.
- lazyasciiart 7y agoYou can live in the city without experiencing any of those things though.
- bpodgursky 7y agoCorrect, if you are rich enough to own a penthouse suite, you will not have upstairs neighbors.
- adrianN 7y agoOr if you're rich enough live in a house with modern sound insulation, which should be affordable to most middle class families. I almost never hear my neighbors and the house I live in was constructed in the early fifties. Newer buildings have much better sound insulation.