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> Also if your vision of WFH is that everyone sprawls out then it doesn't solve some of your other issues: people will still need to use their vehicles to get places (because unless we solve the root issue of 'too few homes' then those people will be spread out from each other or services to not create more cities with too few homes) and their sprawled out suburban communities will not suddenly become more walkable. They'll just drive everywhere.

Partially disagree.

Maybe I'm not representative, but most of my family's driving is specifically _commuting_. All other weekly errands add up to less than one day of commute driving. Actually, less than one way of one day of commuting.

Unless you compare a "fully rural" drive-60-miles-to-get-groceries lifestyle to basically a "downtown manhattan" walk-to-the-office one, I'm skeptical that total car-miles will increase when transitioning from WFO to WFH.

Most "completely non-walkable" suburbs will still have a grocery store within a few miles, usually in a so-called super center with a bunch of other stores. I don't have data to back this up (other than talking with coworkers), but my sense is that people who talk about transitioning to a "rural" WFH really mean "move to a small town" or "move to the outskirts of an exurb".

So, even if they become completely car dependent, they're still reducing from 50 commuting miles per day to 2-3 "errands" miles.