• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    You skipped the essential NIMBY step between these two:

    Better city attracts more people

    More people increases costs

    Costs scale way out of proportion with population because of artificial constraints imposed by those lucky enough to be here first.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      Worth noting that constraints aren’t 100% artificial in SF, just mostly artificial. It, like Helsinki, is situated on a peninsula and is part of a metropolitan area, so expansion isn’t really an option. Intentional NIMBY constraints make it so much worse.