05-29-2020, 06:59 PM
(05-29-2020, 05:52 PM)dtkvictim Wrote:(05-29-2020, 04:54 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I think you kind of make the point, you don't want to live downtown, some but people do. I think it's very presumtive to assume people who live in different housing from one's self must be miserable. I certainly don't think that people living in the suburbs are miserable because they live in a suburb and that would make me miserable.
I must not have come across the way I meant to. For the record, I have lived in rural, suburban, and now urban housing. There have been pros and cons to each of these arrangements, and I'm not trying to come across as "rural good, urban bad". My point was about averages. I think on average people prefer to not live in urban centers (at least in the current North American state of urban centers), and I think more remote work will make the choice to live further out an easier one to make.
I'm not saying no one likes living downtown, or that there will be a mass exodus. Simply that it does have the potential to hurt urban growth because there are a lot of people here that would prefer to be elsewhere.
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I haven't seen many attempts to figure out cause and effect on this topic, but one suggestion that pops up most often is that lower density is more conducive to forming communities, and that community is almost something like a prerequisite for happiness.
The mass exodus has already happened, in many cities, in decades past. If anything, there have been more people moving back into urban locations as more buildings have been built. It's not for everyone -- but not all apartments are 600 sq ft, either. In DTK, 800-1000 sq ft appears to be a more typical size, although it will vary by building.
As for communities, I will say that we know far more people after five years in our condo building than we ever knew in our subdivision, even after almost 15 years there.