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I'm surprised with remote work we haven't seen a resurgence of the small town. Towns within an hour of a bigger city, but small enough where the real estate is
by aantix 3y ago
I'm surprised with remote work we haven't seen a resurgence of the small town.
Towns within an hour of a bigger city, but small enough where the real estate is still reasonably priced.
Maybe when this young adult generation starts to consider kids, this option might become attractive.
- epiccoleman 3y agoWe were recently considering moving closer to "back home" from our metro area - the biggest problem is that there's just not much going on back there, and the schools are substantially worse. That said, a pretty nice and big house that we were looking at in our "home" area was actually something we could afford - the same house here in the city would probably cost close to double.
- willcipriano 3y agoSchool quality is overhyped, what they are really measuring is student quality for the most part.
- nix0n 3y ago> what they are really measuring is student quality for the most part That doesn't make sense to me. What sort of forces do you imagine will cause one school to have better students than another, consistently for decades?
- willcipriano 3y agoSchools serve a particular geographic area. Geographic area predicts your economic class. Economic class predicts if you went to preschool, if you were read to, the quailty of nutrition you received, the probability that you had lead windows in your bedroom, if you live in a single parent household, etc.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoCost of living. Not, mind you, because poor kids are exceptionally poor students on their own, but because their parents tend to have less time and money to support them.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoYes, but it still is useful since your kids will also be affected by their classmates.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoAnd small towns have low quality students from families that couldn’t cut it in the city.
- gnicholas 3y agoTotally agree. This is especially true with the ongoing growth of online schools.
- Astraco 3y agoThe problem with small towns, at least where I live, is not prices but the lack of public services, like school or hospitals.
- Freedom2 3y agoWhat remote work? A large percentage of companies have moved back to in-office, or at least requiring a certain number of days in office. Not every job also supports a remote work lifestyle.
- nix0n 3y ago> within an hour of a bigger city, but small enough where the real estate is still reasonably priced This is more rare than you would think, depending on your definitions of "bigger city" and "reasonably priced". It's definitely more rare than it used to be. Part of that is the increase in housing prices, as detailed in this and other articles. But part of it is a contraction of what's "within an hour", due to crumbling public transit infrastructure.
- danaris 3y ago> I'm surprised with remote work we haven't seen a resurgence of the small town. That kind of demographic shift takes a generation or more to really occur. It hasn't even been 4 years since remote work took off with the pandemic.
- poisonborz 3y ago> Towns within an hour of a bigger city, but small enough where the real estate is still reasonably priced. Haha. In my EU region those towns, and even villages around those towns are outpriced. What you can afford with a garden, 2-3 rooms you need to look in end of world villages, and those building are from the 60-70s.