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I don't understand Californian sprawl. When I interviewed at google, I stayed at a hotel in sunnyvale. To do ANYTHING required a drive, because NOTHING is walki
by mrguyorama 3y ago
I don't understand Californian sprawl. When I interviewed at google, I stayed at a hotel in sunnyvale. To do ANYTHING required a drive, because NOTHING is walking distance because EVERYTHING is six lanes wide with a divided median and a 400 car parking lot. It's insanity. Sunnyvale surely isn't the most populated and busy area I'm sure, but I can't understand making ANYTHING like that for anyone. It's so dystopic, needing a car to do anything.
It reminded me a lot of Florida actually. Everything built really flat and spread out, as if businesses can catch communicable diseases or something.
- reducesuffering 3y agoYa, that's 90% of the country. If anything, California is one of the biggest current densifiers, as the major metros have hit the natural borders and need to densify to accomodate new people. Lots of multistory and transit going up; not enough, but more than most places.