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I thought I would dislike this analysis, but I actually found it pretty reasonable. One of the biggest takeaways for me: California and the US aren't exceptiona

I thought I would dislike this analysis, but I actually found it pretty reasonable. One of the biggest takeaways for me: California and the US aren't exceptional. Because so many of us on HN live in California, it often seems that California is uniquely bad at infrastructure, but cost overruns are just as much of a problem in the rest of the US, as well as Canada, the UK, and Australia.

magduf 7y ago
>it often seems that California is uniquely bad at infrastructure, but cost overruns are just as much of a problem in the rest of the US, as well as Canada, the UK, and Australia. California is not uniquely bad within the US. NYC is utterly infamous for their ridiculous construction costs, caused by a huge amount of graft, terrible unions that require 4x as many workers as necessary, etc.