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Distances aren't big because gas is/was cheap, they're big because nobody wants to pay $2,000/month for a crappy one-bedroom apartment within biking distance of
by Zikes 13y ago
Distances aren't big because gas is/was cheap, they're big because nobody wants to pay $2,000/month for a crappy one-bedroom apartment within biking distance of their job. Distances ARE big because America is so big, and even now there's still plenty of land to be cheaply bought and decently priced housing built upon.
For the past decade everyone's been balking at the rising gas prices, and so far as I know no two places have magically become closer together as a result.
- thrownaway2424 13y agoYeah, nobody wants to live in those apartments, that's why the rents are so high!
- Zikes 13y agoNobody, with a ±1% margin of error.
- haldujai 13y agoOr you know, people eventually grow up / start families and realize for a short commute they could raise a child in a much safer environment with better facilities out in the suburbs. Or even they themselves one day decide they want a garden, and a personal swimming pool, and a house.
- thrownaway2424 13y agoIf you hate your children and want them to die in a dystopian post-Oil-Age future then yes, shuttling them around the exurbs in a car makes perfect sense.