From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 21:40:48 MDT
I would guess that it's a sociological question of considerable significance.
"Energy flux density" is one (probably flawed) notion I sometimes think in
terms of. Another big thing is that in a big city one is much less likely to
be asking oneself "What will [people|everyone] think?"
A deep ponderable is the definition of "pleasant".
Or were you being sarcastic?
steve wrote:
>
> Very interesting. If it is so cheap and generally pleasant to live in small
> town/rural America (as I'm sure it is) then why do people pay to live in
> Silicon Valley etc? Is it just that all of the jobs are in the high cost
> metropolitan areas? Or is there some other reason? You can see the same
> phenomenon here in Europe. The French are abandoning the countryside and
> small towns (very beautiful, fantastic quality of life) to live in mass
> suburbia around Paris and Marseilles. Here in Britain London is like Silicon
> Valley - a house like the one I live in (4 bedrooms, £50 thousand) would
> cost £500 thousand in many areas. I just don't understand:)
>
> Steve Davies
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