The future is dense, walkable cities.

Trailer somehow keeps missing the obvious. Depopulating the suburbs will leave more room for the rural folks. There is hard work ahead in clearing the ground and rebuilding topsoil, but the land will be dirt cheap.
 
It seems that current trends where I live have northerners moving from urban areas to rural less populated areas to escape city life.
A lot of those people are conservatives "running away from winter" who are often over the age of 65. Some are also families wanting cheaper housing.
 
I thought the census was showing the opposite, last time I checked. Especially when Orlando is growing faster than Chicago.
 
A lot of those people are conservatives "running away from winter" who are often over the age of 65. Some are also families wanting cheaper housing.
Neither of which are negatives. You know we do have cities in the south. Do tell why they aren't moving there.
 
In Vienna only 25% of trips are made by car. It’s one of the lowest rates in the world, but they’re making transit improvements to get the rate even lower.

One reason that transit is so popular is an annual pass that only costs €1.26 per day.
 
When the economy gets bad, people relocate to cheaper, crappier housing.
Rural life doesn't necessarily mean cheaper, crappier housing. In fact my home in Tennessee is worth $485,000 dollars. The vast majority of homes in my area are nice whether they are smaller or larger homes. Of course like everywhere else, including urban areas, some homes are not as nice as others. It's all perspective anyways. My idea of hell and crappie housing is an apartment with neighbors on the other side of the wall.
 
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Chicago is a dying city
It has the nation's best location, maybe the world's best location, connecting the transportation routes of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. That allows it to be very severely corrupt and still not die. The Chicago situation will probably get much worse and that's still just a cost of business.
 
It seems that current trends where I live have northerners moving from urban areas to rural less populated areas to escape city life.
The thing is - rural life is great. City life is great. Suburb life is great.

If you don't like one, don't live there.

The fuckers that try to declare their way better than others are the ones that have never experienced anything but their own.
 
Rural life doesn't necessarily mean cheaper, crappier housing. In fact my home in Tennessee is worth $485,000 dollars. The vast majority of homes in my area are nice whether they are smaller or larger homes. Of course like everywhere else, including urban areas, some homes are not as nice as others. It's all perspective anyways. My idea of hell and crappie housing is an apartment with neighbors on the other side of the wall.
A whole house for $500k!?

Condos in my urban neighborhood start at $1,000,000. Houses are $2-4M and we’re not even in the fancy part of LA.
 
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