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Suburbia is worse... like a desert.. no water no trees no shade with all the houses built wall to wall now, and no toilets, one MUST drive a car to survive

• CryptoPunk 5y ago
  Suburbia is a classic example of the harm done by central economic planning. There is a confluence of at least two government failures behind the emergence of modern suburbs: * government officials, pushed by NIMBY SFH owners and anti-profit left wing groups, restricting zoning/housing-development in major economic nexuses where the most job opportunities exist, leading to pressure to develop the adjacent suburbs as they are the next best location for housing. * taxpayer funded left-wing groups pushing for social housing and social services in city cores, leading to neighbourhoods with high concentrations of low-income residents that become breeding grounds for crime, and cause urban decay that leads to the flight of middle class taxpayers to safer suburbs.
  • cafard 5y ago
    As someone who grew up in the suburbs (late 1950s through early 1970s), this account is simply unrecognizable.
    • CRConrad 5y ago
      They've probably changed quite a lot since then.
    • CryptoPunk 5y ago
      Suburbs have of course always existed, but the proportion of the population living in them has grown significantly since the period you note. Between 1950 and 2010, the suburban population quadrupled while the city center population doubled: http://energyfuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/suburb2.gif http://energyfuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/suburb2.gif