The headline relies on a definition of "cost" I do not accept. Cities will get less tax income, sure, but their outlay is also less. Their actual costs could be radically reduced by changing zoning laws to enable residents to live near their place of employment.
Remote work is gutting downtowns
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Re: Remote work is gutting downtowns
#52I see this same trend happening in Houston where I live now and I suspect it is happening in other large car-centric cities as well.
Re: Remote work is gutting downtowns
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
This. And I would say the broader distribution will actually be good for the environment as whole. Or at least it could be.
Walk me through that thinking? Downtown residents walk and use transit. Places with broader distribution of people typically rely on roads because transit isn’t economically efficient. My intuition is that higher population densities are more environmentally efficient because more people can be served by any resource. Are you thinking otherwise?
Energy = force * distance = mass * acceleration * distance.
Broader distributions means increases in distance means increase in energy consumption.
And usually having more space means having more stuff, which means an increase in mass, which also results in increase in energy consumption.
Re: Remote work is gutting downtowns
#54downtowns are picking up. With remote work my wife walks downtown and gets lunch etc. Places like SF though may struggle because parts of Sf are not inviting - car gets broken into, have to lock bike going into stores etc
Re: Remote work is gutting downtowns
#55A bit off topic; I of course understand that I'm an odd situation and not representative of the broader trend at play here... But moving into remote work inspired my partner and I to move into Manhattan from the sprawling car driven nightmare that was Phoenix. Tiny little studio, but we've never been particularly materialistic, a murphy bed massively opens up the space, and no office to go into means once the day is…
Our grocery options will improve as soon as the german discount chains set
Frys is not more expensive than TJs [0] When you drive east from AZ, you drive past the cheapest gas in the US[1]
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