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It's an urban problem. No one is short of space in bumfuck, nowhere. The jobs are all in cities. Workers need to be in cities. Commuting by car isn't viable on

It's an urban problem. No one is short of space in bumfuck, nowhere. The jobs are all in cities. Workers need to be in cities. Commuting by car isn't viable on a large scale. Other forms of commuting require investment (building rail etc) and governments won't do that. So house prices spiral.

chasd00 6y ago
> The jobs are all in cities. Workers need to be in cities. This is beginning to change and the pandemic quickened the pace. If Starlink comes online and works as promised it will further speed up the process. I think there are many people who live in a crowded city only because that's where the office is and would chose to live elsewhere if it were possible.
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- asdff 6y ago
  There are also plenty of people who spend way more than they should on a home in a good school district. In fact, a lot of people opt to trade a good commute to work just for that. It's not as simple as "move to the middle of nowhere." School from home clearly doesn't work for a lot of children, given how many private schools have been skirting the rules and how many parents were/are desperate to find an in person tutor during this pandemic.
imtringued 6y ago
I agree that availability of jobs is the driving factor of migration. There are lots of decaying towns with no hope of recovery. However, the children that were born there did go to college. Their best option is to go somewhere else and it would be foolish of them to not set their aim high and to at least try their luck in one of the bigger cities.
cwbrandsma 6y ago
Where I live used to be bumf*ck, nowhere. Hardly anyone could point it on the map, usually thinking it was in an entirely different part of the country. Even if someone did know of the town, the normal respone was "why would anyone want to live there". Now it is the city featured in this article, and has doubled in size since I've lived here. Even the big town where I grew up, Twin Falls, ID, whose only actual claim to fame is a failed jump by Evil Knievel, has more than doubled in size over the last 20 years.

chasd00 6y ago

> The jobs are all in cities. Workers need to be in cities. This is beginning to change and the pandemic quickened the pace. If Starlink comes online and works as promised it will further speed up the process. I think there are many people who live in a crowded city only because that's where the office is and would chose to live elsewhere if it were possible.

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asdff 6y ago
There are also plenty of people who spend way more than they should on a home in a good school district. In fact, a lot of people opt to trade a good commute to work just for that. It's not as simple as "move to the middle of nowhere." School from home clearly doesn't work for a lot of children, given how many private schools have been skirting the rules and how many parents were/are desperate to find an in person tutor during this pandemic.

imtringued 6y ago

I agree that availability of jobs is the driving factor of migration. There are lots of decaying towns with no hope of recovery. However, the children that were born there did go to college. Their best option is to go somewhere else and it would be foolish of them to not set their aim high and to at least try their luck in one of the bigger cities.

cwbrandsma 6y ago

Where I live used to be bumf*ck, nowhere. Hardly anyone could point it on the map, usually thinking it was in an entirely different part of the country. Even if someone did know of the town, the normal respone was "why would anyone want to live there". Now it is the city featured in this article, and has doubled in size since I've lived here. Even the big town where I grew up, Twin Falls, ID, whose only actual claim to fame is a failed jump by Evil Knievel, has more than doubled in size over the last 20 years.