Recession 2020

[FlyerInHi]

I agree…. but why not oppose highway by the same principle. Don’t build anymore highways anywhere where there are few drivers. I don’t mean you specifically, but generally speaking.

Don’t build new cell towers where there are few subscribers.
Do away with all subsidies to the boondocks. Concentrate innovation where there are economies of scale and rentability. Invest more where there are more people, at least on a per capita basis. Just live by consistent economic principles.

[The-Shoveler]

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

Being spread out a little can reduce risk in many ways.

That said it has been predicted that all of SoCal will become one big Mega City 50 years from now.

“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”

This is the reason the internet was created BTW.

[FlyerInHi]

You mean like the Boston-DC corridor? I think at one time it was the World first megalopolis. If you can call suburban sprawl a city.

I ran into someone at Ikea who drives Murrieta-Sorrento Valley everyday. That is just crazy to my mind.

I’m a great admirer of Singapore and I think we should limit cars and have an auction process for car entitlement permits.

We really need to abandon the SFR mindset and let the market decide. If freeways were market driven and user-fee self sufficient, urban planning would be much different. The train urban model is actually more economically sustainable.

One days I will retire to locales where I walk down my apartment and find stores and restaurants.

[The-Shoveler]

One day after having coffee on my patio over looking the canyon, I will go out to my three car garage, jump in my car and say take me to the beach etc…

[spdrun]

I will say, “HAL-9000 let me drive before I go all Bowman on your sorry ass.”

[spdrun]

FIH: Boston-DC is only suburban to a point — between about South Brunswick and Trenton, there are farms and fields. Same thing with rural Maryland and Delaware, as well as parts of Connecticut and RI.

[Myriad]

[quote=The-Shoveler] That said it has been predicted that all of SoCal will become one big Mega City 50 years from now.[/quote]

It will be called San Angeles – and all restaurants will be Taco Bells

[spdrun]

Too close to “San Angelo” Texas. How about Los Diegos or Tijuana del Norte?

[The-Shoveler]

It’s a brave new world LOL.

San Angeles is a fictional futuristic concept of Southern California, United States, typically configured by commentators and films producers to include the areas of Los Angeles to San Diego and sometimes even San Bernardino to Riverside

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Angeles

Los Diegos is not far off either

Los Andiegoles (and Arnold Schwarzenegger is Prez)

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=The-Shoveler]Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

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I could buy that.

So it’s not about principles, nor is it about core economics.

One minute it’s “don’t build because there are not enough users.” Next minute it’s “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” Or next minute it’s about social engineering and “bring civilization to the country bumpkins.”

So why put all our eggs in highways. Why should we not be leaders in trains too? Trains are better than caterpillar earth moving equipment as an export products. It’s like airplanes in GPD returns.

BTW, China is starting to have nicer highways than USA. But they’re tollways, not freeways.

[Ribbles]

[quote=FlyerInHi]I’m a great admirer of Singapore and I think we should limit cars and have an auction process for car entitlement permits.[/quote]

Aaaaand I just moved out of the country.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=spdrun]FIH: Boston-DC is only suburban to a point — between about South Brunswick and Trenton, there are farms and fields. Same thing with rural Maryland and Delaware, as well as parts of Connecticut and RI.[/quote]

Yeah. If you read books, the NYC area was the first megalopolis before Rio, Tokyo, etc. From Boston to DC there were lots of iconic US companies before the interstate freeways. That was the real America, not Kansas.

If you look back with some context you see how times changed. People who didn’t embrace change got passed by.
One of my friends’ parents still thinks cable TV is modern. She feels antenna is old fashioned from her childhood. The truth is people are now switching back to antenna for local network TV and streaming everything else.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=The-Shoveler]One day after having coffee on my patio over looking the canyon, I will go out to my three car garage, jump in my car and say take me to the beach etc…[/quote]

To each his own. But I think my urban philosophy has more potential subscribers. I don’t mean total numbers but higher demand than supply.

I have a new friend in Vegas. 60yo single.
Sold his company in LA and retired in Vegas 5200sf house with casita out in the boonies. 5200sf is so whack. He said LA is boring but Vegas is fun. I think the opposite.

He said a condo on the strip is too small. Me, on the other hand, I’m plotting a condo in Waikiki like this. 400sf.

[The-Shoveler]

I can see how downtown type environments would appeal to some single people (or maybe some childless couples).

Enough probably to create demand for a limited (very limited in SoCal) supply.

Me I need an enclosed private garage (the bigger the better) and some out door yard space (preferably with a view).

To each their own.

[spdrun]

You can get a garage and a yard in many denser urban parts of SD — think North/South Park.

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