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It's so compelling selling the picket house with all the land around it - who doesn't see that as idyllic? But then the hidden costs to community can't really b
by HeckFeck 3y ago
It's so compelling selling the picket house with all the land around it - who doesn't see that as idyllic? But then the hidden costs to community can't really be quantified, and the housing developers are hardly going to think of that.
I don't live in the US, but I do wonder what that has done to your social fabric. As well as making much of downtown flattened and made into parking lots for businesses. It is the first thing I notice jumping into any random US town in Street View; such wide spaces between every business on Main St. Who would ever walk there and chance upon a friend when you just dump the car outside and go into the shop or restaurant.
- twic 3y agoI suspect that something similar is happening with the shift to remote work. You can live in a big house in the beautiful countryside! But now doing anything other than being in the house or the countryside is considerably more effort.
- mrweiner 3y agoMy partner and I struggle with this. They’d like to live a bit further out of the city, have some land and some goats, and I’d love having a creek nearby, but the reality is that we like going out to music and vegan restaurants, and living out of the city would make this much more difficult.
- sznio 3y ago>I suspect that something similar is happening with the shift to remote work. You can live in a big house in the beautiful countryside! I dream of owning a plot of land in the countryside and starting a neighbourhood there with my friends.