Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?
by njarboe on Friday January 17, 2020 @07:53PM
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I love cities, think they are great, and live in the Bay Area myself. I don't know how old you are, but much of the flight to suburbs was due to the building of freeways and the fear of nuclear attack on cities. Younger people did not grow up with bomb shelters and duck and cover drills at schools, so living in a big city is not something they fear. If we have a nuke or two blow up a few cities today, there might be flight out of the cities once again. I sure hope that doesn't happen.
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Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?
by tmh79 on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:05PM
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White people didn't leave cities because of the threat of nuclear attacks, they left because there was an incredible amount of racial unrest, violence, and rioting. There is a lot of research on the issue [0].
Climate change is a much larger threat to anyone under 30 than nuclear annihilation is, and the balance of evidence we have says that urban lifestyles (car free/car light, living in a multi family home) has a smaller carbon footprint than traditional suburban living.
Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?
by njarboe on Saturday January 18, 2020 @12:13AM
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How would you possibly be able to estimate the probability of nuclear annihilation? There are 13,000 nuclear warheads ready to launch on a minutes notice.
Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?
by inferiorhuman on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:48PM
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I don't know old you are but duck and cover drills were a thing in the Bay Area well into the 80s (although typically for earthquakes not warfare).