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This is the right answer. I have a child, work remotely and while I appreciate the flexibility, I kind of hate it for my career. The article is mostly vibe-y wi
by pj_mukh 7mo ago
This is the right answer. I have a child, work remotely and while I appreciate the flexibility, I kind of hate it for my career. The article is mostly vibe-y without any digging into why people with children need to commute from so far.
It's rent, the answer is almost always rent. Its my rent, its my child-care workers rent, it my kids school-teachers rent. It's always rent.
- everdrive 7mo agoIt's also consolidation of jobs in big cities. When I was a kid you didn't need to move away from home to find a stable income. WFH could have solved that, but I think the cultural movement to relocating has just become too entrenched.
- rcpt 7mo agoYou were a kid before Detroit automakers? Before NYC was the center of finance?
- everdrive 7mo agoPoint taken, but the trend has only increased since then.
- smithoc 7mo agoWhen I was a kid the Detroit automakers bought air filters manufactured at a factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin and brake pads manufactured in Peoria, Illinois and lubricants from Fort Wayne, Indiana. And the people working in those places provided the customer base for local and regional financial services, along with the rest of the commercial base that made small towns and provincial cities good places to live and raise a family throughout the 20th century. And of course, a household only needed one person employed, so there was less pressure to move to a bigger city that could provide opportunities for two different careers.
- pllbnk 7mo agoNot necessarily. We happily moved away to suburbs because we grew tired of the city noise and chaos. The child can stay outside, we have a proper backyard, there are barely any cars in the street. It was much more affordable but was a side effect rather than the main reason to move. And when both parents work from home, as we do, we are doing just fine with a single car. For those exceptional circumstances when we need to be away in different places at the same time, the cab is still nearly infinitely more affordable than a second car.
- pj_mukh 7mo agoI moved away to Europe where there are none of those things and my child can walk himself over to a park 10x the size of an American backyard. The chaos and noise (especially the car noise) are just an explicit choice American cities have made. I really hope you get the irony of being a suburbanite complaining about there being too many cars in cities when most of those cars are suburbanites who’ve given up on improving the public transit in their cities.
- pllbnk 7mo agoI live in Europe. Each country is different but every large city is more or less the same. Sure you can’t compare London with Copenhagen for example but even in the latter case suburban life is much calmer.