Reply #66: People have to spread out

[krispos42]

I frankly don't see much appeal of living in a big city, myself. They are turning into authoritarian police states, frankly, because there are so many people there it's a target for terrorism and, by gawd, we can't allow that, can we? Police-monitored security cameras all over the place. Licence-plate cameras, toll booths that automatically bill your credit card (and incidently leave a permanent trace of your travels, invasive police checks of your person and baggage. And it's only a matter of a few years before those cameras are tied to facial-recognition software and a permanent record of all your travels.

And this is in addition to the crowding and taxes and permits and high rents. Plus, the crime is usually higher and the schools not a good.


Plus, coastal areas, where most of the big cities are, are natural-disaster prone, and with global warming and rising sea levels thrown into the mix, I just don't see how encouraging migration and development of the heartland region of the country is not a good idea.


Yeah, I know, I know, they are wonderfully cosmopolitian and diverse, with centers of higher education, culture, science, and history, find dining, sporting events, etc. However, unless you have gobs of money, these are not things you can do on a frequent basis.



But, sadly, nothing is really going to stop the transition of big city real estate prices from going up and up and up until and unless we get a real, Kennedy-era progressive income tax, we simply have too many people with too much money willing to spend it on fancy addresses.