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If it were just walkable, you could pick a smaller city or downtown area and live there, especially with a class that does intellectual or remote work. The issu
by Noos 7y ago
If it were just walkable, you could pick a smaller city or downtown area and live there, especially with a class that does intellectual or remote work. The issue of "too expensive" is usually that everyone wants to crowd into a few cities because of those network effects and social life features, walkability is one of them.
For all the love of decentralization HN has, in practice they very much want to centralize where wealth and power is.
- ghaff 7y agoWhen most people say "walkable," what they generally really mean is walkable + good transit + tons of places they'd actually want to walk to like parks, bars, restaurants, and shops.
- Redoubts 7y ago> If it were just walkable, you could pick a smaller city or downtown area and live there No you couldn't, because most American downtowns completely close down outside of 9-5 M-F.