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Re:Oslo made its city center basically car-free by throwawaycanada on Friday January 25, 2019 @04:31PM (#19002691)
You use the words "choosing to live far away" but all that generally means is they are poor. Clearly they should just buy a house and move to downtown San Fransisco like everyone who cares about the environment does.
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Re:Oslo made its city center basically car-free by briankelly on Friday January 25, 2019 @05:06PM (#19003005)
Urban revival and gentrification are pretty recent compared to decades of white flight.
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Re:Oslo made its city center basically car-free by ip26 on Saturday January 26, 2019 @01:59AM (#19005223)
There are many parts of the country where lavish acreages are built in communities far from town (save money on the land, put it into the house), banking on the automobile to commute thirty miles each way.

SF isn't even an anomaly here- look to the coastal mountains above Palo Alto. Lavish houses on large plots of land. Yeah, they are expensive, but you ain't getting no mansion and ten acres in the heart of SF for a paltry $50M.

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Re:Oslo made its city center basically car-free by apendleton on Monday January 28, 2019 @06:00PM (#19021929)
I don't live in the Bay area. The richest people where I am live in giant single-family homes on large parcels in the suburbs.
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Re:Oslo made its city center basically car-free by bigmanwalter on Friday January 25, 2019 @04:53PM (#19002886)
We can also invest in public transit so that them owning a car wouldn’t be necessary
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