Re:Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive
by EpicEng on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:58PM
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No it's not.
People tend to stay in the area they were born.
People tend to stay near their family.
People tend stay were they can find work.
People can't always afford to just up and move.
Not everyone is living on a six figure salary with a slew of job offers to chose from. Most people don't have the options you may have.
Re:Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive
by cortesoft on Thursday January 18, 2018 @02:27PM
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People don't make decisions in a vacuum. I don't get to choose where I want to live based solely on what I enjoy. A big part of what keeps people in a city is the network effect; cities are where the jobs are, so the people have to live there, which makes companies want to move to where the employees are, which makes people live there.....
Plus, you have families, cost of moving, home ownership, etc, that keeps you in a place even if you might enjoy living somehwere else more.
But whether people choose to live in them is determined by what people enjoy.