largefreakatzero said

TheRidersofDoom said

this could all be solved very easily if more people lived in big cities and less in suburbs, urban sprawl wastes tons of money on duplicate services such as roads, sewer systems, hospitals, schools, fire departments, police departments, courts, power-lines...etc

I can guarantee you that they could fit everyone in NH in just Nashua, Manch, and Concord alone if they built taller residential buildings like Boston. They could then make everything else a giant state park, and of course they could still keep hotels and such nearby the tourist places.

but only under a dictator would that happen, people like being selfish and living in exile away from cities like this is still the wild west. It's a cold hard fact that the average citizen in a city like Hollis consumes far more resources and energy per year than a person of the same income in downtown Manhattan.

I have a feeling in the next hundred years anyone not living on a major transit line will be fucked over as nothing will ever replace oil as the main fuel

Spoken by someone who already lives in the city.

Fuck that, I'll keep my place in the woods and they better bring a small army if they want to drag me into your utopian city. I pay enough fucking property tax to cover my small footprint -- including $2700/yr for a school system that I will never bear a burden on (no kids and never will have them). And yes, I AM FUCKING SELFISH.