Stuck In Your Parents’ Basement? Don’t Blame The Economy

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The Brain

#150
June 03, 2016, 03:13:11 PM
Quote from: derspiess on June 03, 2016, 11:15:39 AM
Quote from: Valmy on June 03, 2016, 11:07:31 AM
Huh. What was Miami like before the yankees moved in?

Dunno.  First time I got to visit Miami was like 2003.

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Capetan Mihali

#151
June 03, 2016, 06:21:15 PM
Quote from: Valmy on June 03, 2016, 11:07:31 AM
Huh. What was Miami like before the yankees moved in?

It's an interesting question -- I think it was quite a sleepy town before the influx of Jews and Cubans, but even as late as the 70s, when Miami Beach was known for being full of decaying old residential hotels.
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Admiral Yi

#152
June 03, 2016, 06:33:48 PM
I imagine it was a backwater until the invention of AC, much like the rest of the South.

DGuller

#153
June 03, 2016, 07:09:06 PM
Anyway, my guess is that automated cars, when they finally come online, will really disrupt the real estate equation and reverse the increasing urbanization we're currently going through.  The drastically improved efficiency of automated traffic will open up quite a few areas that are currently impractical to commute from.  Maybe this will reverse the trend from the cost of real estate side rather than the income side.

Capetan Mihali

#154
June 03, 2016, 07:46:04 PM
Hmm, hadn't thought of that.  Traffic in Seattle, for instance, is horrendous.  And I think that is part of what's driving the move on the part of Amazon, Expedia, etc. to relocate their corporate campuses in the city after being in the suburbs.  Though I think "lifestyle" reasons are a significantly greater factor, given that their employees could reverse-commute (a la Google employees living in S.F. and catching the Google shuttle out to Silicon Valley).
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MadImmortalMan

#155
June 03, 2016, 08:17:42 PM
Those factor expand the sprawl too. Which most people say is a negative thing. I'm not sure the death of the regional small city is necessarily good.
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Capetan Mihali

#156
June 03, 2016, 08:20:51 PM
What regional small city do you have in mind?  Seattle, S.F., and NYC certainly aren't such.
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
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PDH

#157
June 03, 2016, 08:22:41 PM
Prunedale :(
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MadImmortalMan

#159
June 04, 2016, 01:37:56 AM
Yeah but there's a big wall of mountains keeping it from being swallowed up like San Jose or Bellevue.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Admiral Yi

#160
June 04, 2016, 01:42:09 AM
Ah, you like to see some wilderness between cities.

grumbler

#161
June 07, 2016, 01:37:05 PM
New York:  nobody lives there any more, it's too crowded.


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Savonarola

#162
June 07, 2016, 01:44:51 PM
Quote from: derspiess on June 03, 2016, 10:16:03 AM
Speaking for Middle America, my preference is for big city types to remain crammed in their cities and not move here.  I mean, just look what they did to Florida :bleeding:

Sorry   :(
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