'California Forever' founder Jan Sramek unveils first renderings for utopian city near San Francisco and boasts it will feature better schools, safer streets, and less homelessness

UK Daily Mail ^ | 09/01/2023 | Keith

[teeman8r]

why are they all white people?

[SkyDancer]

And of course Antifa and BLM will be too scared to go there.

[FLNittany]

Sounds like a place where you can own a gas powered oven/range if you want to. Maybe a wood fire place too.

And your illegal landscapers will be able to use those pesky gas powered trimmers and blowers.

[fruser1]

Given the increasing levels of corruption in the US, this may go the way of The Sails in Naples - it'll get partly built sans best public areas due to money running out from graft. Then it'll be crappy enough that only the subsidized will live there and crime soon takes over.

[BradyLS]

Funny how it works out for the elites that way. I’m sure they can explain it to us.

[antidemoncrat]

Fifteen minute villages?

[Dr. Ursus]

Useless eaters- they’re coming for you!

[Scrambler Bob]

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George Pullman tried this in 1880 -

https://paleofuture.com/blog/2014/11/14/blood-on-the-tracks-in-pullman-chicagolands-failed-capitalist-utopia

more -

https://www.pullman-museum.org/theTown/

How did that all work out?

[libertylover]

Looks like all white people and none look like perverts.

[Celerity]

Let’s not forget the need to surround it with a wall.

[Tench_Coxe]

"In looking over all the facts of the case the conclusion is unavoidable that the idea of Pullman is un-American. It is a nearer approach than anything the writer has seen to what appears to be the ideal of the great German Chancellor. It is not the American ideal. It is benevolent, well wishing feudalism, which desires the happiness of the people, but in such way as shall please the authorities."

"You will own nothing and be happy"

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article DFG. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"'California Forever' founder Jan Sramek unveils first renderings for utopian city near San Francisco and boasts it will feature better schools, safer streets, and less homelessness [??? emphasis added]"

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The wires are crossed already. With all due respect to the homeless, I don't associate utopia with having homeless people.

Also, since California's schools evidently indoctrinate, as opposed to educate, project leaders are going to have to go out of state to find the community leaders needed to make this utopia work imo.

And even then, it still won't be a utopia, just not as bad as the rest of California.

I will be glad to be proven wrong on my pessimism.

[PIF]

Inner city ferals are just itching for their new source of looting to be built. After all he didn’t say increased security ... those reparations gotta come from someone.

[PIF]

Let’s play spot the inner city feral, the Afro, the guy in all black with the hoodie up, sport the MS-13 gang banger. Oh, and spot the policeman ...

[Dilbert San Diego]

Have planned cities ever worked out as expected?

What ever happened with Columbia, Maryland, or Reston, Virginia, or Celebration, Florida, or Kentlands, Maryland?

All of those are planned cities or suburbs. Did they work out they way the planners anticipated?

[absalom01]

This whole thing is incredibly weird.

The least crazy explanation is that Sramek just decided to fleece his neighbors in Atherton and the denizens of Sand Hill Road with this cockeyed scheme.

The version he’s actually selling reminds me of Marc Lore’s “Telosa” scheme out in the desert somewhere, but just barely close enough to the SF bay area that Silcon Valley’s hordes of H1-B engineers might be willing to stay there.

One thing missing from this piece is that the location is the one remaining area nearish to the bay that remains culturally closer to the central valley than “cosmopolitan” San Francisco. The only thing that’s certain at this point is that bit of cultural stability will be destroyed. Should be interesting to see how this develops though. Kind of like watching a train wreck unfold. Horrifying, but impossible to look away.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

'California Forever' founder Jan Sramek unveils first renderings for utopian city near San Francisco and boasts it will feature better schools, safer streets, and less homelessness

Interesting - they apparently plan to never elect a Democrat to city government, then.

[BlueLancer]

Think of it as Evolution in Action ...

[Reily]

And have a very strict immigration policy!

[mowowie]

Will I be invited?