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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Suburban Solution
 
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Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

FCKGW posted:



autonomous driving will change car ownership, but it does nothing to reduce the amount of cars on the road. you still have 2 people driving to work or running errands and burning the same amount of fuel to do it, just in someone else's car (or your own while you jack off behind the wheel).

They could ameliorate some of the today's social issues in suburbia though, like increasing the mobility of the elderly and disabled that are currently stranded in rural or suburban homes. It's a bandaid solution but I can think of a lot of people who'd be better off with safe reliable transport

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Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

Rekinom posted:

Well, even despite the convo on urban design and zoning... school quality is still the elephant in the room that people ignore.

Sure there are private schools in city cores, but now that means paying a premium to educate your kids on top of a premium to live downtown. Far easier/cheaper to just suck it up and commute absurdly long distances.

It's a fair point, and I don't think many would argue with you on this. For most middle class Americans buying a house in the suburbs is clearly a good decision, and there are lots of incentives for them to do so. However I think a lot of people here are trying to say that there's nothing inherent about suburbs that makes their schools better, but that that outcome is cause specifically by various planning choices implemented in the United States. There are however a number of drawbacks that definitely are inherent to American suburbs, and changing policy such that we create denser neighborhoods could produce better outcomes.

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Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

 I always wonder how Republicans justify to themselves their efforts to conceal as much information as possible :sigh:

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