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Yeah I’m in Melbourne and thanks to working in tech, I can afford to live in one of those inner areas with cafes and community events at my doorstep. But the av

Yeah I’m in Melbourne and thanks to working in tech, I can afford to live in one of those inner areas with cafes and community events at my doorstep. But the average person is forced out to some hellscape like Craigieburn or Melton where kids will be surrounded by mega highways in every direction. We really need to do more to bring pedestrianisation and walkability out to the cheaper areas rather than having them be a luxury for the rich.

Tade0 3y ago
There's an additional factor that is significant in my corner of the world: Plenty of people work in businesses that are necessarily far from any city, like factories, so not only they can't really afford living in those dense areas with cafes and the lot, they couldn't live there anyway because there's little to no mass transit to this middle of nowhere where they're headed every day, so they need to drive. Communists approached the problem by just building residential areas around the factory, but it was unhealthy and in this day and age you can't expect anyone to work at the same steel mill for 35 years, like my grandpa did, so it's not a solution.