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Suburban counties are heavily subsidized in a number of ways. You can't really compare migration flows for that kind of analysis
by notfromhere 5y ago
Suburban counties are heavily subsidized in a number of ways. You can't really compare migration flows for that kind of analysis
- toomuchtodo 5y agoIt’s immaterial if the long term economics of the suburbs or rural living is unsustainable; that’s where people are moving today, and the economics issue will be someone else’s problem in 20-30 years (metro Detroit comes to mind). Complaining about wide swaths of the population migrating to medium to low density suburbs and exurbs is like fighting the Fed. You can’t. Builders build, buyers buy and migrate, and you’re stuck with the resulting development. Tangentially, StrongTowns’ efforts (which argues against sprawl) is like arguing with someone who is racking up credit card debt and has no plans to pay it back. People want their low density housing and will fight you for it (see California for example, and their efforts to try to make upzoning possible at scale), and as long as one lives in a democratic country, you can move to and live what your economic means will support. (my comments are observations of the system and its participants, not my personal opinion of an optimal master planned community configuration)