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> New cities, we desperately need. The entire housing fiasco is caused by an imbalance between the number of jobs and the amount of housing. all the jobs are, i
by pcwalton 7y ago
> New cities, we desperately need. The entire housing fiasco is caused by an imbalance between the number of jobs and the amount of housing. all the jobs are, ironically, in places that really don't want to grow. so the logical thing to do, is to move those jobs to new places that do want to grow.
Even if this strategy did work (it doesn't), it's a terrible idea for the environment and quality of life. This is how Los Angeles got super-commutes from the never-ending sprawl of the Inland Empire.
- mcguire 7y agoAnd how's your commute in SF?
- doublement 7y agoCommutes to SF via BART train are fine from the denser, inner-ring suburbs. Commutes from the sprawl area in Contra Costa County are horrendous.
- pcwalton 7y agoPretty ideal, actually. Muni works fine.
- baby 7y agoIt’s hell. I spend 3 hours per day in a shuttle.
- boring_twenties 7y agoNo amount of money is worth this IMO. That's 30 hours a week, you could almost do a whole nother full time job with that.
- deathanatos 7y ago> 3 hours per day > That's 30 hours a week It's 15 hours per week, unless parent is a time traveller. (3 hours per day, not 3 hours one way.) I also used to be in the Bay, and that's about right; 3-4 hours per day. It's fucked.
- boring_twenties 7y agoYou're right, I mistakenly doubled again for the round trip. Still, 15 hours a week is insane if you step back and look at it. Imagine all the things you could learn and do with that time every single week.
- robertoandred 7y agoThe high density of urban areas and the usage of public transit are much better for the environment than suburbs where you need a car to do anything.
- baby 7y agoEvery European cities proved you wrong.
- pcwalton 7y agoEuropean cities prove that density doesn't work? What?