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It would have to be a society wide calculation, and I doubt the vast, vast majority of people are going from zero driving to more driving like a NYC to suburbs
by lotsofpulp 2y ago
It would have to be a society wide calculation, and I doubt the vast, vast majority of people are going from zero driving to more driving like a NYC to suburbs migrant. More likely is people going from regularly driving 60min+ per day to sit at a desk no longer doing that drive, which is a net reduction in energy usage.
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- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> I doubt the vast, vast majority of people are going from zero driving to more driving like a NYC > to suburbs migrant Going off property prices, it’s not negligible. (And going off labour prices, RW is clearly anti-agglomerational [1].) [1] https://econ.vt.edu/content/dam/econ_vt_edu/seminars/fall-2023/11-6-23%20Yichen%20Su%20Paper.pdf https://econ.vt.edu/content/dam/econ_vt_edu/seminars/fall-20...
- ghaff 2y agoHard to say how the numbers ultimately work out. I guess we'll have to see what the net numbers look like for large cities in a few years. Anecdotally I do see a fair number of people I know who were living in cities, in part because it was convenient to their office, who moved out--including to rural locations--once they didn't need to regularly go into an office any longer.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoI think the telling metric would be be the hybrid vs full time remote composition. Even if full time rm is carbon negative, hybrid can be positive. Myself and many I know went from 10 min Daily commutes to 60+ min commutes 2-3 times a week.