Posted on 06/17/2014 7:00:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Only 4 percent of consistently conservative Americans want to live in cities, but urban environments are where the tech action is.
It's one of those stats that just smacks you across the face: In a recent Pew poll, only four percent—4%!—of consistent conservatives want to live in America's cities.
Meanwhile, about a quarter of people with mixed political views want to live in cities more than they want to live in small towns, suburbs, or rural areas. And nearly 46 percent of consistently liberal people want to live in cities.
For someone who writes about technology, this is particularly significant. It's not just that the latest round of hot companies are deciding to headquarter in cities like New York and San Francisco; it's also that many of these companies make sense, for the most part, only in urban environments.
All the startups clumped under the heading Uber for X—of which there are dozens—require high concentrations of people (i.e., cities). Take companies like Airbnb, which works best with a lot of listings in a given area, or Yelp, which declines in utility as fewer people contribute reviews. But take, as well, the range of other technologies that make the most sense within dense agglomerations of people. The most prominent example is autonomous vehicles, which require detailed, expensive, and regularly updated maps to operate. For that reason, those vehicles will almost certainly deploy in cities first, and maybe only in places where enough people drive to make the investment in mapping the area worth it....
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
If it wasn't for the millions of foreigners being imported from third world countries, U.S. cities would be draining out. At some point the well of cheap imports dries up. Peak People occurs around the year 2055.
“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.”
Thomas Jefferson
Ouch! Good one.
Liberals are like little children with very small comfort zones. They fear the unknown and anything outside of the city is unknown to them.
Libs tend to like cities. makes sense. libs have a herd mentality. they find safety in numbers, just like sheep do.
cities also have a higher rate of mental illness, which makes one wonder: do cities cause mental illness or are the libs who inhabit the cities just mentally ill by nature?
Very true. I’d rather be closer to the food supply than tech. Cat.6 cable, iPhones etc not being very edible ...
I told a Lib city dweller (and big Agenda 21 proponant) friend of the unpleasant fact that at any given time he and the 3-4 million people he likes living within a few miles of are within three days/nine meals from starting to starve. The level of denial/belief that the Government will (can!) save him was frightning ...
One other observation.
When it becomes a LOT OF WORK to keep warm in the winter, a lot of the entitlement army is gonna migrate south.
so it gets down to this now....all the cool people live in the big cities (behind locked doors with door to door cab service) and all of us square people live in the suburbs or small towns or rural areas....
just like grade school.....we're just not cool enough for the perfect people.....
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