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Oops, Scientists May Have Severely Miscalculated How Many Humans Are on Earth (www.popularmechanics.com)
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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (15 children)

And here I was just commenting on how huge population centers freak me out, and now there's even more of you sons of bitches?! Half of you people weren't here when I was born! Go home or something, get off my lawn.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Every once in awhile I see things about how people are fleeing the city or the state and im like. How are prices still going up when new and denser buildings keep on going up? Somehow everyone is leaving but we keep on filling the increasing supply of housing and its not like homelessness has gone down.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    People are not leaving cities

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    oh yeah. every time I see that type of stuff I assume there is some bs around it. I'll believe it when high rises start looking deserted like malls.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

    It's both things. People like me are headed out to the country, most others are just piling up in the cities.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Yeah, eventually I'll move out of the city too, but overall as you said the trend is more people moving to cities

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    I mean this is a little surprising given wfh thing. You would think the trend would be reveresed. Personally I like a metro system.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    I think people often get exhausted with cities at a certain age. I'm starting to want to sacrifice all that I like about the city over the crowdedness and general rudeness you observe while adjacent to so many people.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    I have been pretty lucky with really great neighbors so my trend has been the opposite as I age. Like when I was in college I was sorta like. I could really live here if there was only jobs out here. Now its like man, I really like not needing to drive.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah, I hate driving. I wish that in my (very walkable) city, I didn't have to, but I do sometimes. Today was a rough start due to having to drive around town.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I have to because we are outside of it now but when we could live there I could do anything without driving. We are just close enough that I can get to most places without driving but it takes much more work planning it out and is more of a pain overall.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have a dream of living somewhere that at most requires me to bike 20 minutes while rarely/never driving. But I also want a place that isn't super crowded and I can have a garden. Tall order, I know.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I had that and it was the best time of my life. Three miles to work so 45 mins to walk, 15 to bike, and bus could be in the single digits if I was lucky. I was renting from these sisters who owned a four flat and they asked If I want to use half the garden. Then get this. They had a guy till it each spring and put weed blocker cloth over the whole thing. Then they would ask when they went somewhere if I would water it. Oh my the hardship /s. It was so awesome. Unfortunately lost my job at the time and my wife and I had to move in with my brother (we have our own place again. for now anyway.)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Well the country thing is a more recent phenomenon. I have been hearing about how everyone is leaving the state since the 80's and it became a political bs talking point. We should be empty by now with the way they have talked over the decades.

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