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Why is no one asking the biggest question; why are people piling into cities when there are towns and smaller cities that could be developed instead and thereby lower cost of living. It’s a global phenomenon it seems, as much as it doesn’t make any sense regardless. Please save yourself the quality of life arguments. Those are post hoc arguments that only express laziness. What state governments should be doing is “r…
Because the migration to cities has been a large proportion of the increase in productivity over the last few centuries. It is more efficient to have urbanised populations. Rural life is already over-subsidized by urban centers.
Does anyone happen to know if this effect is/can be a thing or do remote workers still flock to big cities anyway? I imagine this could eventually lead to lower rents in cities (but also lower salaries due to increased competition in cheaper places)
Why is no one asking the biggest question; why are people piling into cities when there are towns and smaller cities that could be developed instead and thereby lower cost of living. It’s a global phenomenon it seems, as much as it doesn’t make any sense regardless. Please save yourself the quality of life arguments. Those are post hoc arguments that only express laziness. What state governments should be doing is “r…
Great Idea. But politically impossible.
Barcelona has really good urban planning ideas that I wish New York would take a look at. It feels like we're a decade behind them.
I think people in Barcelona may want to differ, rent prices have increased a lot due to tourism and expats flocking to Barcelona, while salaries for people outside the tech bubble are almost the same. All these articles featuring all the good things that Barcelona is doing are just marketing...
In Amsterdam, any property that has been empty for over a year can be legally squatted, and once in, legal squatters may be hard to get out. For this reason, landlords tend to rent out their empty properties cheaply as "anti-kraak" (anti-squat), on the condition that the tenant moves out when the landlord needs the property again. This is quite popular for students because you often get a ridiculous amount of space f…
Why is no one asking the biggest question; why are people piling into cities when there are towns and smaller cities that could be developed instead and thereby lower cost of living. It’s a global phenomenon it seems, as much as it doesn’t make any sense regardless. Please save yourself the quality of life arguments. Those are post hoc arguments that only express laziness. What state governments should be doing is “r…
The other big problem is getting to work. I'm lucky to have a remote career. If that was not the case I'd almost certainly need to commute 2-3h/day to the nearest big city.
From a business standpoint it also makes sense to go to where the action is: startups flock to SF because it's full of VC money, talent, and startup-friendly customers. Given this, the tax rate is just a cost of doing business. You almost certainly want an office in that area if you're intent on raising VC money.
As to the State level problems you describe, the US doesn't work like the EU. Part of the EU budget gets poured into its poorer countries and regions. The US equivalent would be to pour federal money into poorer states and counties. I'm not aware of any such direct cash infusions occurring, nor can I imagine any occurring in today's polarized environment. What seems much more likely, is states doing this work within themselves. Also, ND seems to be doing fine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_countie...
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> The statistics show that Barcelona (and Madrid) are at a historical minimum of empty houses available, yet the spanish population is migrating from smaller cities to the big ones Sources, please?
The historical minimum seems to check out, only 1.52% of houses are empty (13k compared to 80k in 2011): https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3299445/0/barcelona-detecta... Also, less than 500 in 237657 were illegal touristic lodgings, so it seems Airbnb and such can't be blamed either.
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Wow, so every word of your post is probably wrong. Do you not see the problem with the most upvoted and seemingly informative comment on the thread being, at the very least, 20-30 years out of date?
Not wrong and not 30 years but 9 years out of date. I still think its noteworthy, that Amsterdam had such a rule for a long time until very recently. It shows that there are precedents for how to deal with empty buildings.
Spain's government is simply trying to hide the fact that it is the #1 problem in the Spanish economy. [after the 2008 recession, economic researchers at Univerisidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid put out an analysis of the government's investments in alternative energy, which had been lavish. Results: every alternative energy job created resulted in 2.2 jobs lost in the rest of the economy. The average alternative energ…
