I like these town vibes and the US lacks these types of towns mostly because economics. Self sufficient farming is cool but there is a reason the vast majority

I like these town vibes and the US lacks these types of towns mostly because economics. Self sufficient farming is cool but there is a reason the vast majority of places don't do it. And one might say it creates that family or towny vibe but most towns in the US don't do it. Why economics. People are somewhat resistant to big town store but a few sellouts lead to more and eventually the price differential can destroy that model. Now the author point out they want to prevent this from happening but making towns no cars which is a tough sell if your not a tourist town (getting to this is the problem). I can think of many towns in Europe that have this property and maintain the local feel much better but still it feels much harder. Jobs are really important and if you town is just making farm stuff you run a risk of a huge poor spot developing leading to issues spiraling out of control because there's not jobs to fix it. Now this might be the exact reason to try it because there is risk and it has potential but it seems very difficult to pull this off