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The travel time people tolerate is approximately constant. If you make travel faster, after a while things just move farther away from each other.

• steveBK123 3y ago
  Right, and even this is desirable because on the coasts you have impossible to build within, extremely expensive cities, surrounded by lots of under built land. The suburbs act as a relief valve for city housing costs. Otherwise we see a continue out-migration from urban coast blue states, to less urban, cheaper red states. For example, I have friends/family who have/do teach at HCOL city K-12 schools. Starting pay is horrendous like $40k in some areas, and tops out in the $70K range. They aren't buying a $1M-2M apartment with transit options for their commute. It's fun when they are 24 and living with a roommate splitting a dumpy rental. By their 30s they are left with basically 3 choices - quit teaching, marry someone with a higher paying job, or moving further & further out.
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  • adrianN 3y ago
    The reasonable thing to do is build dense housing at the edge of the city and not endless oceans of single-family housing in suburbs.