Good day!
DISCLAIMER: I have no formal training in anything regarding city planning. I simply don’t enjoy cars that much and I would love to find some discussion and hope among the endless doomposting.
For me, the /c/fuck_cars community (and the original /r/fuckcars) leave something to be desired. Because I have already become “based and trainpilled,” reading through the communities feels a bit like beating a dead horse.
I have heard too much about the Netherlands for one lifetime, as someone who lives in the states. Maybe my perspective is flawed here, but: the Netherlands have a GDP greater than every US state except for 4 of them (California, Texas, New York, Florida), and the Netherlands have less land area than 41 of US states. This isn’t to say that the Netherlands has no city planning feature that should be ignored because they are so unique, but I think that is exactly what the Netherlands are: unique.
Anyway, on to the meat and potatoes!
- If you had to recommend livable places for like-minded people to move to, what city or state would you recommend for anyone? (it must cost less than both an arm & a leg. One arm or one leg is acceptable…)
- Which state(s) policy in your opinion seem to be heading in the right direction as a whole?
I think a lot of land in the Americas should be returned to nature, and the people should move to dense housing in cities.
yeah my partner lives in arizona and thinks the whole place should be turned into a giant solar farm
Do you have any ideas for a pathway to that goal? I don’t see suburban homeowners voluntarily giving up their land to move to a city.
Well…
You jest, but in these parts there’s been plenty of landslides and flooding in the last decade or so. The affected zones are typically very low density. The government is calculating that neither repeatedly rebuilding or adapting to the new climate is affordable for those remote areas and the only help offered is for relocating. The massive forest fires is a new thing as well that provokes the same kind situation.
This is a fairly limited phenomenon so far, but I wonder to what extent the increasing cost of climate adaptation on the infrastructure will make us densify, whether we want to or not.
I only somewhat jest! In these parts there was a mega flood over a decade ago (holy shit it’s been that long…?) and that cut off entire towns from the nearby cities, leaving them with no access to hospitals or groceries or pharmacies or gasoline. Everyone’s cars just became decorations and we were trapped.
Could do a command economy that relocates communities into mid-rise apartment blocks in urban centers.