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Seattle has no problem at all attracting people who actually want to be here! Quite the opposite: building enough new housing space for all the people trying to
by marssaxman 2y ago
Seattle has no problem at all attracting people who actually want to be here! Quite the opposite: building enough new housing space for all the people trying to move here has been one of our more significant problems for many years now.
- ehnto 2y agoI don't think it's about housing in the metro and inner metro, I think it's about commercial real estate and businesses in the CBD areas and business parks. People definitely want to live in the city areas still for the lifestyle, but not everyone can live there so most still commute. Commuting sucks, people don't want a commute. But without commuting, the amount of business (and thus rent, thus tax income) that a CBD can support is much smaller. Better public transport would help reducing the pain and cost of commuting, maybe that helps the CBD areas bring more people in.