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by throwayedidqo
3364 days ago
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The Bay Area doesn't have taller buildings and public transport because the people living there keep voting against it. Why? A mix of reasons but the biggest is that a drop in housing prices is bad for anyone that owns property. Also NIBMYism is rampant with a bunch of entitled rich people. Great to donate to help the poor and all but I don't want a train that could potentially carry them to my neighborhood. |
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This is way too simplistic. The sordid truth is that the BA (and SoCal, and much of the rest of the U.S. outside the major 19th-century cities) has a legacy of sprawl is because, for several key decades (1950-1980) people just really, really loved sprawl (and the perception of freedom that went with it). And orchards and interconnectedness and community and all the other stuff that they bulldozed to make room for the sprawl -- not so much.
That's the "cognitive issue" the commenter above you was referring to.