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The California of the north.

• pfannkuchen 3y ago
  Insufficient Mexican food.
• eitally 3y ago
  The reality is that all sufficiently large land area countries are facing similar issues. It's the same in China, in Brazil, in Australia, etc. Technology has accelerated the economic gravity of large metros, at a pace not seen since the industrial revolution, and the profit margins associated with providing digital services are so out of whack compared to almost all physical services, this has dramatically expanded the economic disparity between rural & urban. People gravitate toward cities because edu/$/oppy, but can't afford to live there comfortably until they're established in a career that would allow it ... and not all careers are on that kind of pay scale, so service workers get pushed into suburbs, then exurbs, then satellite cities. We haven't gotten beyond that stage yet, but suffice to say everyone is recognizing that it's unsustainable to allow cities to be comfortable only for the wealthy.
  • screye 3y ago
    > It's the same in China, in Brazil, in Australia This is conflating a real problem with an artificial problem. Sprawling Anglo-phone cities (NA, Australia, NZ, etc) have very different problems from truly dense cities in places like China, Brazil or even NYC, the one exception. Sao Paolo and Shanghai have people packed like sardines. On the other hand, all 3 of SF, Vancouver and LA collapse into sprawl the second you leave the city core. This sounds like a guy who worries about suddenly becoming too jacked on their first day at the gym.