flynn23 wrote:
In fact, I hardly drive at all

Sounds like heaven. I'm not being facetious.

As far as working, if there was better infrastructure, you'd have less commuters.

I have mixed feelings here. I've worked from home on occasion and found it harder to stay focused. That being said, it was being done without official blessing and without any processes in place to support it. So that's part of the problem. Infrastructure is also key, as you say... my Citrix remote desktop isn't bad, but it's not speedy and the shift key doesn't work reliably for some reason. There are a million such little things that make working from home difficult.

I think there's a definite resurgence in real urban living. Even in cities that had already given up downtown for dead long ago. The housing market is partly behind that, as these are easy investments. But I also think it's lifestyle. People are too busy to handle a 30+ minute commute, which today is pretty short. That's just a huge sinkhole of unproductive time. Even if you were spending that time walking, at least you're getting the exercise out of it.

I wish i shared your optimism. I can really only speak with conviction about Atlanta, since I'm here, but I see no such revival. The traffic has gotten much worse since I've been here and I've seen substantially more even in the past 6 months, at least for the (short) commute I make. I'm 11 miles from work, of which 9.5 is highway. It should take no more than 15 minutes, but I've had it take 45 and the average is something like 25 or 30. That's nearly a half hour to go 11 miles.

I see Atlantic Station, which was supposed to be a big urban to-do, and it's just a fancy open air mall next door to condos. With bad traffic and one of the worst movie theaters built this decade.

I see so-called "mixed use" developments with pretty nice condos on top and then nothing but chain restaurants and perhaps some token independent shop below.

I see not one single pedestrian bridge. I see intersections that actively discourage walking by their awful design. I could theoretically walk to Target from my house, but I'd have to cross both Briarcliff (not so bad) and North Druid Hills. I don't trust it. And now they're planning to flatten the DSA and the other schools there and the Park at Briarcliff, and turn that whole giant corner into some new mega-development. That should be awesome for traffic, and I'm sure I still won't see a pedestrian bridge.

I see developers razing trees not for good high density housing with a grocery store and pharmacy and maybe a bar but for 4 gigantic houses. It's probably market driven, but that merely proves the point that the market is fucking stupid.

I'm curious to know where these pockets of decent urban living are in Atlanta because i don't see one place that I'd call legitimate, if only because I won't be able to get from there to any other place without a car. Among all the things I see and don't see, I see no damn trains. Marta's a sham. I may be deluding myself about what the best-case really actually is... I don't know, I've never lived in any other actual city (Nashville doesn't count). I just feel like it should be better.

I'm pretty tired of it. Even my short commute is enough to raise my blood pressure. I'm starting to seriously think I need to get out of here, for my health and mental well being.

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