Internal and external migration and immigration means a few major cities see the brunt of national populations in each country. Sixty-eight percent of the world's population will live in urban areas by the year 2050. CITIES SEE LOTS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN CENTERS WITH GROWTH but living spaces will be scarce. People will live in small apartments on the outskirts of cities. Already in the USA you see tiny apartment blocks going up that aren't differnet to commie blocks. I will post pic of example below. They look more colorful than commie blocks but don't let that fool you - you will end up owning no property, renting a small space at an exorbitant price, and living in a shit drab development on the outskirts of a city. Suburban homes are either overpriced or underpriced in the USA meaning in overpriced areas it's impossible to "buy in" and in underpriced areas they are becoming ghettoized. Suburban areas will also be absorbed by the new mega cities and suburban areas of cities with population decline will be abandoned (here the falling prices and rising crime in suburbs of Cleveland Detroit etc.)
Are you ready for your drab future in a little box?
Somebody in the last thread said a rural town like pic related is ultra cozy. I'd like to remind him that the cozy rural refuge is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Rural areas in USA, Canada, and especially East Europe are seeing major brain drain to the big cities and only addicts and old people are left behind. There are going to be many new ghost towns in 50 years.
My midwest town of 50,000 put up SEVEN of these in the past 3 years. They're simultaneously cutting all traffic lanes to one each direction and planting concrete and trees where the other lanes were.
We're being corralled.
Gavin Carter
What it should be: A sizable urban population spread out among a few urban centers each specializing in a few industries
The suburbs are debated but in the context of some countries suburbs are a good thing in my view if there is viable transportation into the city. It allows people with the money to spend outside of the city for a bit more space and better schools so city prices can drop.
Rural towns even less of the population but they have jobs in agricultural resource mining, refinement etc.
Today we increasingly have the opposite of that thanks in a large part to immigration.
Ian Ramirez
wow, i am sitting at my computer look at this building in real life right now outside my window. good to see i'm not alone in thinking its totally disgusting. $/sqft in there is crazy low too because nobody wants it
Sebastian Kelly
They are everywhere. They try to make them look modern and sleek. In reality it's like paying to live in a box. Every millennial in a city lives in one of these and they end up spending a fortune on their little box which means they can't buy property or start a family.
They all look the same too. I noticed them when I was in America some years ago and then I was shocked to see them coming up in the UK, and other Northern European countries. I went back to the USA last year and it was far worse. These really are commie blocks but we have to pay for them.
It's a good thing I'm not a cityfag, and my career allows me to stay out of cities while still earning a comfortable income for where I live.
Ian Stewart
suburbs and rural areas are not safe.
Joshua White
>rural areas are not safe How?
Thomas Sanchez
oops, was for
Lucas Lewis
Because we look at trends.
As I said rural areas are seeing major population depletion. What is left are addicts and old people. In Many nations small rural villages have the oldest average population because all young people have left to cities.
In suburbs we will see expansion of megacities into suburbs OR in the case of cities with depleting population (because people who can move to the new megacities i.e. costal cities in USA) the suburb housing prices fall and riff raff moves in. In 50 years in the USA many formerly white and nice suburbs will be ghettos and dangerous. Already we see this in midwestern suburbs. I'm not saying I wouldn't rather live in cozy rural town or suburbs now but I'm saying those are quickly disappearing under the threat.
Oliver Diaz
I don't know about the rest of the world, or even the rest of the country, but where I live, there is still plenty of people my age that plan to stay nearby, most of my peers that plan to leave are actually moving further away from the nearest major city.
Juan Cruz
People living in Detroit never thought their community would change so rapidly. In 50 years this will be unstoppable
Connor Perry
Are you saying that living in a rural area will become too expensive, or you claiming that the feds would try outlawing it? If you are claiming the former, I'm going to have a job as long as at least farmers need electricity, and if you are claiming the latter, I doubt that anyone outside of an urban area would ever tolerate that, it'd be political suicide.
Matthew Myers
IR scopes are pretty dope.
Joshua Powell
The constructivist movement was not that bad by itself but it's like they were all drooling retards who didn't realize that buildings made of concrete sheets are going to look extra ugly especially when in fancy shapes. Or they were not retards and it's just another (((coincidence)))
Owen King
Theres almost zero work to be found in rural areas.
Jeremiah Wood
It's unfortunate but for many EE nations the capitals are the only places where there is significant development and investment. I mean the population of Bratislava is some 400k people but there's easily another 400-500k people traveling here every day/week for work.
Xavier Cruz
I live in a rural area, and I can safely say that that meme is bullshit.
Robert Bailey
future of habitation is a whole shit ton more 'vehicular homelessness' and slow evolution of the automobile industry to support it with new micro-rv designs.
as soon as autopilot is more or less standard the laws will be changed to permit sleeping while your car drives itself and cars will start being designed explicitly with sleep comfort in mind.
Hudson Thomas
Can someone plant explosives here ? Thanks .
Ryan Powell
I meant 100-200k*
David Moore
A bear can eat you.
Jack Watson
Not all of rural America is bear country, user.
Mason Roberts
That one looks cool imo. Looks like something out of blade runner
