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Re:Why it's expensive to be poor by psyklic on Thursday May 21, 2009 @06:17AM (#620165)
How do the interstate highways increase the cost of living? They would seem to make it cheaper to transport goods via road and faster to transport people between cities?
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Re:Why it's expensive to be poor by asciilifeform on Thursday May 21, 2009 @02:33PM (#620879)
> How do the interstate highways increase the cost of living?

1) It killed the railroads. Rail is a fundamentally more efficient form of transportation than the truck, and thus adds less cost to pass on to consumers.

2) It allowed long commutes to become expected.

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Re:Why it's expensive to be poor by psyklic on Saturday May 23, 2009 @11:27PM (#624067)
Maybe they increased the cost of living, but they dramatically increased the quality of life ...
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Re:Why it's expensive to be poor by asciilifeform on Monday May 25, 2009 @09:47PM (#626111)
> they dramatically increased the quality of life

Pray tell, how?

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