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>my quality of life and financial freedom is immeasurably improved. This regularly surprises my acquaintances that stayed. The people of Austin once had traffi

>my quality of life and financial freedom is immeasurably improved. This regularly surprises my acquaintances that stayed. The people of Austin once had traffic free commutes and the people of Denver could once easily afford housing. Then other people became aware of those things, showed up in droves and those good things went away. If you want to keep your perks in the long term you should probably not be telling everyone how great it is.

CalRobert 7y ago
Build more homes. Put them near these new jobs. Add schools and bike routes. Cities aren't static unless they're dying.
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago
  You're not wrong but I have zero faith that importing a bunch of people from the SV tech scene isn't going to stifle housing construction with SV style zoning, stifle infrastructure improvements with pandering to the environmental crowd^, and price out everyone who isn't making six figures in the proces. Of course they all realize SV style regulation of land use sucks, you need to allow for density and all that but everyone is gonna push for the one or two "little things" that they liked and you have a tragedy of the commons. I know everyone is gonna read this and thing "I would never do that" but as they say, a person is smart but people are stupid. ^not that that isn't a consideration but in an urban setting "plan, build, assess, mitigate any impacts" is a better workflow than "never building anything because there's always one person who isn't yet satisfied with the proposed environmental impact".
  - CalRobert 7y ago
    We agree - SV is a disaster for the reasons you state, though it's worked tidily for anyone who bought a house there 30 years ago. Texas likes to take an anti-regulation stance as I understand it, so maybe they could address that. The first step could be to remove the parking minimums they impose despite their anti-regulation reputation...

CalRobert 7y ago

Build more homes. Put them near these new jobs. Add schools and bike routes. Cities aren't static unless they're dying.

dsfyu404ed 7y ago
You're not wrong but I have zero faith that importing a bunch of people from the SV tech scene isn't going to stifle housing construction with SV style zoning, stifle infrastructure improvements with pandering to the environmental crowd^, and price out everyone who isn't making six figures in the proces. Of course they all realize SV style regulation of land use sucks, you need to allow for density and all that but everyone is gonna push for the one or two "little things" that they liked and you have a tragedy of the commons. I know everyone is gonna read this and thing "I would never do that" but as they say, a person is smart but people are stupid. ^not that that isn't a consideration but in an urban setting "plan, build, assess, mitigate any impacts" is a better workflow than "never building anything because there's always one person who isn't yet satisfied with the proposed environmental impact".
- CalRobert 7y ago
  We agree - SV is a disaster for the reasons you state, though it's worked tidily for anyone who bought a house there 30 years ago. Texas likes to take an anti-regulation stance as I understand it, so maybe they could address that. The first step could be to remove the parking minimums they impose despite their anti-regulation reputation...