Dems pitch $100B broadband plan

Re:Dems pitch $100B broadband plan by Klinky on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:25PM (#23645255)

Are jobs in the cities anymore? Jobs downtown in an expensive office building for information workers to basically do the same work they're doing at home right now seems like an artificial and outdated constraint.

Why are we propping up concentrated urban cores with their congestion, pollution, expense/inflation?

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Re:Dems pitch $100B broadband plan by buttersbrian on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:38PM (#23645419)

If jobs were in vacuums, I'd agree.

More importantly, lives are not in a vacuum and might have physical constraints. Perhaps I want to live in a city (congestion, pollution that comes with it) because the lifestyle and culture I prefer blossoms in a more urban area.

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Re:Dems pitch $100B broadband plan by Klinky on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:59PM (#23645637)

I think you could still develop that culture within town centers and density wouldn't necessarily go away completely, but ideally you could find most of what you need in your neighborhood, ideally by just walking.

A dense urban core that is too expensive to live in, and requires a long commute, is not healthy or within a lot of people's lifestyle goals.

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