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Nice weather really isn't secondary. It's the entire reason Southern California is what it is. Anywhere the weather's nice, people flock. If location becomes ir

Nice weather really isn't secondary. It's the entire reason Southern California is what it is. Anywhere the weather's nice, people flock. If location becomes irrelevant, that will just make people flock even faster. Everywhere the weather sucks, ask around and you'll find the cheap place people go all the time for vacation, and wish they could live, if they could but afford it. For Atlanta where I live, it's nearby Destin, or Savannah. Nice weather is a primary determinant of where people choose to retire. It pumps land values up 10x or more. I'll turn your argument around and say that the only truly location-dependent industries are extraction based. Everything else moves where the people are. And people will pay through the nose to live where it's nice.

shuntress 6y ago
> I'll turn your argument around and say that the only truly location-dependent industries are extraction based. Everything else moves where the people are. I don't think I would call the transportation industry (as in: ports, trains, planes, and related infrastructure) "extraction based". But that is an example of something very clearly location-dependent.
inglor_cz 6y ago
"Anywhere the weather's nice, people flock" Well, yeah, prior to Covid, Andalusia in Spain was a favorite tourist destination. It really is lovely sitting at 10pm with a sangria in hand on a historic staircase of a palace and watching the nightlife milling around. But all this flocking is temporary. People do not move there to start businesses. (They do to Gibraltar, but that is a tax haven.) They just enjoy they stay, spend some money on recreation and fly back to gloomy-but-rich Amsterdam, London or Hamburg.