>Which is more likely to end the suburban madness: land war / security breakdown or carbon tax? The hollowing out of the middle class will get there first. Alr

>Which is more likely to end the suburban madness: land war / security breakdown or carbon tax? The hollowing out of the middle class will get there first. Already the outer ring suburbs and excessive McMansions are becoming concentrations of poverty. As the jobs go, so will go the young people and these suburbs without any real economic anchors will become ghost towns of lonely, elderly folks with nobody to take care of them. They will be without the means to move elsewhere because they're stuck owning a house nobody wants to buy or rent. Their best bet is to hope someone builds a bus or metro line to the nearest job center so a real estate developer might come by and buy up a block.