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Perhaps the solution is not to have apartments, and instead spread people and activity out across the country. Particularly pertinent in the Covid era when we
by neilwilson 5y ago
Perhaps the solution is not to have apartments, and instead spread people and activity out across the country.
Particularly pertinent in the Covid era when we have seen what living on top of each other leads to.
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoYou have to first spread jobs out across the country, which is the hard part. Good luck! The white collar remote workforce is only a small section of the population.
- unethical_ban 5y agoIf we're talking about cost reduction, "expand roadways, sewage, water, power and public transit rather than build extra stairwells" is an argument that falls apart quickly.
- Pxtl 5y agoThat might work if not for climate change.
- epistasis 5y agoThere's plenty of space to spread out, it's not like this is a hard thing to find. Yet those areas tend to not be nearly as productive, and they have far fewer amenities for living. If that's your thing, great, do it, you have your pick of geographies because nearly all of the US is empty space. But if that's not what a person wants, and instead they appreciate the things that humans can create and do for each other when there are many nearby, there are very very few locations available, the are all extremely pricy because the supply has been artificially constrained by reggulations of people who live in cities, but apparently don't want to live in cities.
- Gigachad 5y agoI’d infinitely prefer to live in an apartment which is in walking distance from everything I need than some remote house where I have to drive all the time. I find the current price and size of apartments to be perfectly fine.