<story><title>Nearly six in 10 US young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up</title><url>https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/07/theres-no-place-like-home.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Yhippa</author><text>&amp;gt; Many suburbs are not sustainable, and are degrading.&lt;p&gt;Genuinely curious: what is the basis for that claim? Even if you don&amp;#x27;t cite a source.&lt;p&gt;Edit: these responses are very insightful. Thank you all for the responses.</text></item><item><author>parker_mountain</author><text>Part of it, as well, is that a lot of these regions that people moved out of are the suburbs. Many suburbs are not sustainable, and are degrading.</text></item><item><author>fullshark</author><text>A lot of upperwardly mobile, ambitious people don&amp;#x27;t realize this, or they generally understand it only in terms of chastising their high school peers who stayed home.  If you build a society based on the assumption everyone will simply move and re-skill to the regions with economic opportunity, you get a lot of regions of bitter people who stayed behind somewhere and watched their local economy get destroyed by trade deals and technological advances, and that&amp;#x27;s how you get an anti-globalization populist political movement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akiselev</author><text>See the Strong Towns article &amp;quot;The Growth Ponzi Scheme&amp;quot; [1] and the ASCE Infrastructure Report Card for more concrete data [2].&lt;p&gt;The gist is that we&amp;#x27;ve funded the construction of our infrastructure nationwide without accounting for the cost of maintenance. Now after decades of neglect, the cost of fixing all of our infrastructure is astronomical, far worse than if we had been doing it correctly from the beginning.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&amp;#x2F;the-growth-ponzi-scheme&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&amp;#x2F;the-growth-ponzi-scheme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;infrastructurereportcard.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;infrastructurereportcard.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Nearly six in 10 US young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up</title><url>https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/07/theres-no-place-like-home.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Yhippa</author><text>&amp;gt; Many suburbs are not sustainable, and are degrading.&lt;p&gt;Genuinely curious: what is the basis for that claim? Even if you don&amp;#x27;t cite a source.&lt;p&gt;Edit: these responses are very insightful. Thank you all for the responses.</text></item><item><author>parker_mountain</author><text>Part of it, as well, is that a lot of these regions that people moved out of are the suburbs. Many suburbs are not sustainable, and are degrading.</text></item><item><author>fullshark</author><text>A lot of upperwardly mobile, ambitious people don&amp;#x27;t realize this, or they generally understand it only in terms of chastising their high school peers who stayed home.  If you build a society based on the assumption everyone will simply move and re-skill to the regions with economic opportunity, you get a lot of regions of bitter people who stayed behind somewhere and watched their local economy get destroyed by trade deals and technological advances, and that&amp;#x27;s how you get an anti-globalization populist political movement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duped</author><text>Not GP but locally there are a few exurbs that have serious budget problems because they overbuilt infrastructure and don&amp;#x27;t have the tax base to fully maintain it which creates a feedback loop of poorly maintained roads, water systems, parks, etc.&lt;p&gt;Some of it had to do with the murder of brick and mortar retail in tightly packed downtowns in favor of the big box stores on the edge of town. That creates an enormous waste in municipal resources, doubly so if the store got property&amp;#x2F;sales tax subsidies.&lt;p&gt;This is less of an issue in the denser near suburbs where populations and revenues have been consistently rising the last few years.</text></comment>