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On 5/2/2010 11:45 PM David Kaye spake thus:

>>Joey Jolley wrote
 >
>>>      What will Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and other American 
>>> cities look like in 20 years and what will be the primary form of 
>>> transportation? What will happen to single-family home neighborhoods, 
>>> existing businesses, streets, freeways, etc.? 
> 
> Fewer people will be working at jobs requiring them to commute to work because 
> there will be fewer businesses selling products.  Why?  As the population 
> ages, they buy fewer things.  Services will continue to increase, and most of 
> those can be done by people who live closer to where they'll be providing the 
> services.  Example: a nurse would be able to find a job in a medical center or 
> in home care much closer to home than a factory worker would be able to find a 
> factory job.  
> 
> I don't think sprawl will continue.  I think more people will move to smaller 
> communities as they realize that the big cities won't have any more job draw 
> than the smaller towns do.  It's probably not any harder to get a 
> bartending job in Alturas than it is in LA.  

[snip]

Where do you get this stuff, David? Are you part of a group that smokes 
a lot of dope, then plays some kind of future-modeling RPG or something? 
Sounds like it.


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