Re:The Rise of the Forever Renter Class
by olivermuty on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:15PM
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I live in such a setup in Norway. Much smaller scales all up than anything in the us, but my little city has about 60k people in the metropolitan area.
Gives great options for food, culture and whatnot, but I am only one hour by train from the million plus capitol (Oslo). I telework and go in for meetings as needed. One and a half hour to drive to measure it in american terms hehe.
Kids love it too. Roam freely around the neighbourhood, buy area is dense enough that they have all the options for after school clubs and sports and we even have an eSport club now :)
Re:The Rise of the Forever Renter Class
by BobaFloutist on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @04:21PM
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One hour by train from the major city is probably the missing link in the United States.
One hour by train from a given major city in the US is "just" a bunch of major suburbs, or by European standards, another major city.
Absolutely!
I currently drive longer than that to get to work in Atlanta.
I would happily live further away in a less densely populated area if there were reasonable commute options.
Gosh I wish we did suburban planning in that way, instead of acres and acres of housing developments served by a single gas station and perhaps a grocery store with a starbucks attached.
This is much cheaper but still gives “culture” and community opportunity’s over pure rural life.
Telework makes this much more possible.