Re:The Coffeeshop Fallacy
by DHPersonal on Saturday March 11, 2023 @03:30PM
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(Increased) density doesn’t have to mean an absolute lack of any open fields, does it? Doesn’t density offer a probability that countryside can be closer to one’s home?
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> Doesn’t density offer a probability that countryside can be closer to one’s home?
I was responding to someone suggesting that increased density would help with retail profitability.
If we were ro make housing more dense but use the extra space as countryside that's not going to provide any more customers within the catchment area of the OP's coffee shop, is it?
> If we were to make housing more dense but use the extra space as countryside that's not going to provide any more customers within the catchment area of the OP's coffee shop, is it?
If your current area has 400 residents but you can still easily walk to open fields, increasing that to 1200 residents in the same area would triple potential coffee customers while maintaining the same access to countryside.