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    218 months ago

    Those huge rents exist because demand exceeds supply (amongst other reasons). People want to live in walkable neighborhoods and not suburbs where you have to drive everywhere to survive.

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        58 months ago

        It’s more like it’s often not a consideration, because the option doesn’t really exist. And when it does, you pay an obscene markup.

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            18 months ago

            it’s that there’s not enough space to accommodate everyone so it’s not financially realistic to most people who want to.

            There’s plenty of space, it’s used incredibly poorly due to free parking, zoning regulations, and running highways through cities. The financial component is simply there aren’t enough of these spaces and they aren’t dense enough (and they could stand to include a lot more public and social housing, but people oppose it because they don’t want “those” people in their neighborhoods).

            That’s not to say that reforming suburbs to make them more livable wouldn’t be a part of the solution too.

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      18 months ago

      You can have walkable neighbourhoods without living downtown in a big city. Small villages are the original way to have walkable lifestyles. It’s how everyone lived centuries ago. There’s still plenty of those around, they just get overlooked.

      Suburbs exist mainly for the purpose of commuting into the city for work. If people stopped doing that then they could leave the suburbs.