[extropy-chat] Silicon Valley pod villages?

[spike]

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> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Mike Lorrey
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 9:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Silicon Valley pod villages?
> 
> Wasnt' intent on trolling. Had reread Snow Crash and have been looking
> at how far we are to triggering the sort of devolution that would
> result in the Snow Crash world. Was figuring that the Japanese bod pod
> style hotels should be marketable given the real estate rates in the
> Valley these days, and that these sortsa people would be pretty
> experienced with spending time in Japan on contracts as well.
> 
> Why, was I hitting a nerve?

Not with me, I thought it a legitimate observation.  All along
the U.S. west coast, housing prices have been sustained at absurd
levels, mostly thru artificial scarcity.  To develop land here,
one must pay off a long line of people, the greens, the natives,
the politicians, everyone who lives nearby.  For that reason,
you can be sure someone will kill the bod pod notion.  There
just isn't enough money to get the interested parties to
buy in.  There is plenty of land, Mike.  The shortage of
housing is very much intentional.

Its something this society will really need to deal with,
for the poor, and now the middle class simply cannot afford
housing in many places along the west coast.

spike