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Ok lets pretend we run the universe instead of having to deal with inconveinient things like organic choice. Can't we take some pressure off cities by requiring

Ok lets pretend we run the universe instead of having to deal with inconveinient things like organic choice. Can't we take some pressure off cities by requiring jobs that can be done remotely to be able to be done remotely and requiring employers to equally consider remote workers located anywhere? Furthermore lets imagine we are looking at 10% more people is it absolutely necessary that they be distributed the same way they are now? Wouldn't it make sense for some smaller cities to expand and become worthwhile competition to our present largest cities?

fnordpiglet 3y ago
Doesn’t solve the other issues. Where do your kids go to school? Latte?
- michaelmrose 3y ago
  So you are planning on deciding ahead of time where to put folks and you have a small city of Smallville with lots of room to expand and 100k people and Megalopolis with 5M with water on all sides and nowhere to go up save bulldoze the already tall buildings and build taller ones. You don't think that one could theoretically with 1M people's taxable income produce good enough schools to educate folks in the plethora of land available near Smallville. Logically this isn't the sims what actually happens is that Megalopolis gets relatively much more expensive to live in than Smallville driving investment and folks who can't afford $5000 a month in rent to locate themselves there. Note I'm talking about other metro areas not in the woods in rural Idaho. The relative availability of remote work, government locating offices outside of existing metros, tax breaks, major public works could all be factors in making this easier rather than harder but the process is all but inevitable given that current metros seem unlikely to be able to expand indefinitely
- ryandrake 3y ago
  There are many rural and suburban schools far from CA population centers that dramatically outperform schools in denser population areas. I live in one such area. As for lattes, I don’t know what to say. If access to overpriced bean-milk is actually a driving factor in one’s choice of where to live, that’s a problem I’m not going to try to solve on HN.

fnordpiglet 3y ago

Doesn’t solve the other issues. Where do your kids go to school? Latte?

michaelmrose 3y ago
So you are planning on deciding ahead of time where to put folks and you have a small city of Smallville with lots of room to expand and 100k people and Megalopolis with 5M with water on all sides and nowhere to go up save bulldoze the already tall buildings and build taller ones. You don't think that one could theoretically with 1M people's taxable income produce good enough schools to educate folks in the plethora of land available near Smallville. Logically this isn't the sims what actually happens is that Megalopolis gets relatively much more expensive to live in than Smallville driving investment and folks who can't afford $5000 a month in rent to locate themselves there. Note I'm talking about other metro areas not in the woods in rural Idaho. The relative availability of remote work, government locating offices outside of existing metros, tax breaks, major public works could all be factors in making this easier rather than harder but the process is all but inevitable given that current metros seem unlikely to be able to expand indefinitely
ryandrake 3y ago
There are many rural and suburban schools far from CA population centers that dramatically outperform schools in denser population areas. I live in one such area. As for lattes, I don’t know what to say. If access to overpriced bean-milk is actually a driving factor in one’s choice of where to live, that’s a problem I’m not going to try to solve on HN.