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> 1. Car dependent cities. > 2. Housing crisis Ugh… you can improve the situation by spreading out. Cheaper housing requires cheaper, less dense, populations.
by lettergram 3y ago
> 1. Car dependent cities.
> 2. Housing crisis
Ugh… you can improve the situation by spreading out. Cheaper housing requires cheaper, less dense, populations. Using cars enables cheaper housing.
If you want cheaper cars and transportation in general, it’s cheaper energy & cheaper vehicles. Both require less regulation.
You can’t save in a city, where your paying a landlord and the wages are perfectly at market equilibrium. You can only get ahead by moving out, living cheaper and making decent pay.
It’s exactly what the older generations realized.
- Arelius 3y agoWe've already spread out a lot. Should young people be living acres away from the next house and an hours drive from their friends? I'm not sure that'll solve loneliness and disconnection. Not to mention that these days, even doing that won't save you much, or in some cases, post pandemic you'll be paying a premium.
- throwawayqqq11 3y agoTotal BS. Cars and their supporting infra take up space. Less regulations will never get rid of increased cost of individual transportation. Public transportion is the only way to push energy demand significantly. Advising your boomer strategy "to just save" in the current era is so ignorant. This ignorance combined with the ever prospect of passive growth is imo the reason why rent extracts much more out of a life since the golden 50s.
- sanderjd 3y ago> Cheaper housing requires cheaper, less dense, populations. This could not possibly be more the opposite of the case.
- foxyv 3y agoYou may want to consider why cities are so unaffordable right now. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/10/21/the-other-reason-freeway-building-hollowed-out-americas-cities https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/10/21/the-other-rea...