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If someone is living in an urban area without a vehicle, they are likely to be paying more for housing and living in a significantly smaller space than someone
by briandon 13y ago
If someone is living in an urban area without a vehicle, they are likely to be paying more for housing and living in a significantly smaller space than someone living in a lower-density setting (e.g. suburbs) who owns and uses a vehicle of their own and may have a lawn, swimming pool, tool shed, little machine shop or sewing/crafts room, etc.
Can you sell more gardening products (seeds, soil, tools, fertilizer, etc.) to someone who has a yard or someone who has a balcony that could potentially accommodate a planter or two?
Will you sell more pool toys and equipment to someone who has a pool in their yard or to someone who may periodically use their building's clubhouse's pool or walk to the local municipal pool?
How much less furniture or art or carpeting or pretty much anything can you sell to someone who has 500 square feet to live in versus someone who has 1000 to 2000 square feet of space in their home? Smaller kitchens translates into less counter space, so less space for kitchen appliances or even fancy pasta storage containers.
The knock-on effects of your customers living in smaller, urban spaces vs. larger suburban-type homes are huge.
- cylinder 13y agoSo the downside to beautifying and reclaiming our cities by discouraging the automobile is that ... we buy less useless crap and live more efficiently? Shudder.