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Road maintenance isn’t cheap, especially in low density areas. Using current figures isn’t useful because most roads in the US are very underfunded, and we get

Road maintenance isn’t cheap, especially in low density areas. Using current figures isn’t useful because most roads in the US are very underfunded, and we get low scores on infrastructure quality as a result. Plus it’s not accounting the full cost of roads given that you need a vehicle to access them. On average, something like 15% of a households income is tied to transportation (car maintenance, loans, gas, registration, etc), which is insanely expensive just to be economically productive.

fuzzfactor 6y ago
>The People the Suburbs Were Built for Are Gone And after the people who built the buildings have taken whatever money they did make and "left the building" too, then rezoning and repurposing can change the range of available lifestyles in unplanned ways. >Overall there is no reason for them to exist unless people pay a massive premium. One of the primary reasons for exclusive neighborhoods to exist is so they can exclude those who have average or lower ability to pay a premium. Including the necessary car(s) as originally intended which are still insanely expensive & time consuming to operate even after they have long been paid for. But after that sometimes no longer allowed to be parked in some neighborhoods depending on the ugliness consensus of the rulemaking body at the time. Not even to be economically productive, rather to subtract from productivity during otherwise more fruitful survival efforts.