The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing

Re:The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing by kitsunesoba on Sunday April 28, 2019 @10:55AM (#19771405)

Much easier said than done. For this to happen you’d have to convince multiple companies, hopefully across several industries, to risk opening offices and shops in such towns on nothing but faith that they’ll fill up in a somewhat timely manner, and then you have to convince a bunch of folks to move to these towns. Neither is particularly simple or straightforward.

And of course, there also a large portion of people who have no desire to live in towns or suburbs, and these plans wouldn’t appeal to them at all. I’m personally in this camp — I’ve had enough small town for a lifetime already.

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Re:The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing by Bombthecat on Sunday April 28, 2019 @11:42AM (#19771677)

I don't think it about people. In my old town a bunch of offices closed and moved to big city. They didn't hire new people. (probably also a way to get rid of old people which didn't want to commute 1 hour to the city)

Also : why must it be 4 million city? Shouldn't it a 500k also enough?

But right now, even those cities bled people. Moving to big cities.

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Re:The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing by kitsunesoba on Sunday April 28, 2019 @06:22PM (#19774099)

For my situation at least (and likely for many who move to large cities), more people means more freedom in several ways. Better choice of jobs, often the ability to walk straight out of one job into another, more variety in social circles, more things to do, bigger dating pool, and improved likelihood that people have better things to concern themselves with than each other’s personal lives. It doesn’t come without downsides, but the negatives are comparatively trivial for many.

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