LogFAQs > #957560321

Ask anyone with a long commute and they'll pretty much all tell you they want to live where they want to live, not to be tied down by being close to work. When I rented I used to make a point to live near work, but I wonder if that was good for my long-term happiness and financial stability. I always wanted to find my "perfect" job first, hoping it was in an ideal location, and then buy a house near it. Eventually I gave up on that cause I found myself in a good spot to buy and everything went remote with the pandemic. Uh I made that a bit too about myself, anyways the point here is that it's not always easy to get a job near where you live if you want to stake out a more permanent place.

You're not really wrong but like all this stuff we're pretty much fucked already. The time to move out of the boonies and into the city was 50, 100 years ago. Now we're rife with inefficiency but if we were to have millions of homes getting abandoned so people could live in more convenient and concentrated areas (where new homes would need to be built), that's not really a solution either. It makes more sense to push for people to eat more plant-based diets since cultural obstacles aside, that's a relatively simple and low-risk behavior change compared restructuring your home, work, transportation, etc.