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Is this actually happening in Europe? The US is the exact opposite. It's rather trivial to improve rural areas and housing costs are outpacing urban areas at le
by hattmall 4y ago
Is this actually happening in Europe? The US is the exact opposite. It's rather trivial to improve rural areas and housing costs are outpacing urban areas at least in percentage increases. Most rural areas still have access to all the basics that urban areas provide and are only a couple hours drive from major urban centers. There's no public transport but no one cares about that in the US. Even in the largest cities it is generally lacking. Highspeed internet is widely available with even more being deployed currently. Pretty much everyone is getting fiber in the next 3 years and 5g is already in most areas. Only the extreme rural areas lack connectivity and then there is starlink.
- BlargMcLarg 4y agoIt's similar in Europe. You need extreme rural conditions to be more than 30 minutes away from anything. Public transport is a mess in most rural places, with busses arriving maybe once an hour (two hours if you're unlucky) at bus stops in 5-50 minute walking distance. That said, in The Netherlands, these places have also increased in prices. GP is underestimating correlation between rural and urban. If prices explode in the urban area, rural will generally see some increase too.
- bombcar 4y agoPeople define "rural" vastly differently - most "rural" areas in the USA are actually peppered with small towns (between 10 and 10k residents) which can be covered by high speed internet and even effective public transportation if desired - in a small enough town that can just be a guy with a van hired by the township. All you're really missing then is the connection to the nearest urban center - if it takes an hour to drive into town it's not much different than taking an hour to drive across town, after all.
- coding123 4y agoRural for me is 10 acre plots - can't see your neighbor too much. Rural for others is 40 acre plots. For some it's 400-1000.
- imtringued 4y agoThat is illogical. In Germany rural means a town surrounded by hundreds or thousands of hectares. What you mean is just a special kind of suburbia. Having your houses this far apart will result in extremely high infrastructure costs.
- coding123 4y agoWhat are the infrastructure costs? Roads are dirt. Internet is Starlink. Power is solar. Sewer is septic. Water is well. Garbage is a drive once a week.
- bombcar 4y agoHeh I feel most people think of "small town America" when they think rural, which often includes almost all of the midwest outside of Chicago.