Re:Kids need freedom, too
by grahamplace on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @06:09PM
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The team at Culdesac is working on something like this in Tempe, Arizona, with capital from the likes of Alexis Ohanian[1]
see:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/business/culdesac-tempe-p...
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexisohanian_culdesac-re-ima...
You could just move to a walkable neighborhood in an existing city.
I don't know North America well enough, but the linked video says such walkable neighbourhoods have very high prices. That's great if you can afford it, but it's also good to campaign for it to be available for those who can't.
Re:Kids need freedom, too
by colinmhayes on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @05:46PM
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But if you built a similar city it would likely have high prices too. Why not try to get more housing built in the places that are already nice instead?
I'm not sure I understand this, why would walkable places be expensive? Walkable places are generally high density which means that buildings are bigger and homes are smaller so prices should be lower.
Re:Kids need freedom, too
by colinmhayes on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @06:54PM
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For the same reason walkable places that currently exist are expensive. People want to live there.
Re:Kids need freedom, too
by AstralStorm on Thursday June 17, 2021 @03:25AM
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That sounds like a fake supply problem. Potentially people having places to sell or rent blocking high density developments, or lack of infrastructure causing issues.
Good old adage is infrastructure first.
Yeah, they want to live there but they don't want others to live there.
Otherwise you can just build taller.
It exists. Mackinac Island, Michigan.
Permanent population of 492, though. 80 [0] kids in pre-k through 12th grade at the school.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Island_School_Distric...
It would require a lot of capital in the form of patient equity to pull off.