It’s not zoning.

It’s when places developed. The super spread-out metroplexes of the US are in areas that developed after the invention of the automobile.

Europe isn’t more enlightened when it comes to development. They’re just older. Cities tend to develop around most people living within an hour of where they work. When the US urbanized, that was a much larger area due to technological advancements. Rolling that back is almost impossible.

He’s talking about being a passenger on an airplane.

Believe it or not, not everyone lives in dense urban areas or the suburbs.

And the scale of the US isn’t something most Europeans understand. How long does it take you drive across your country? In the US, a drive from Southern California to Maine is over 48 hours and around 5000 kilometers.

The Texas Triangle megalopolis (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio) is bigger than lots of European countries.

Kings off-topic, but after listening to the audio book I really want a World War Z miniseries in the style of a Ken Burns documentary.

I tried saying “bippity bopping boo” just now, but it didn’t move my house 20 miles closer to the grocery store.

Peope can’t just say “I don’t like the weather” and leave.

Wednesday things like housing, Healthcare, and food, which depend on jobs. And those can be very difficult to find in a new place.

I work in municipal employee and an expert in Texas development regulations. If I leave Texas, I lose most of my value as an employee.

Most Americans buy a lot of groceries at once because most Americans don’t have quick access to grocery stores, and buying smaller portions of groceries costs a fortune.

I can buy a week’s worth of groceries for a family of 4 for about the price of 10 days of groceries for one person. But it requires being able to haul a lot more than can fit on a bike. And for many of us, the store is also a long way away with no public transit and in a place where the temperature may be lethally hot for months at a time.

https://youtu.be/q5wvurTU5DI

Good thing they won’t need to bring back a bunch of groceries.

Lots of things like grey hair, moving more slowly, injuries that I would have bounced away from before instead hurting for weeks or months.

But the one that hit hardest was a breakup I had a little while back. She was the love of my life and I fully intended to marry her, and when she ended it out of nowhere I was sad, but fine. She dumped me, and it sucked, but I also needed to finish a staff report for a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting that night. So I moved on.

The thing that upset me most was that I wasn’t that upset. There was a time in my life when I would have been a mess. But as I’ve aged, my emotions have become more regulated.

I miss being capable of that level of joy and pain.

That could fit with the film.

He’s a special category.

Lots of people are evil because they want to have more than anybody else.

Elon already has more than anybody else in the history of the planet, and he’s getting more evil.

It’s absurdly actually come down significantly in the US since 2021.

That $98 is a major improvement.

Don’t forget getting the interview.

I’ve got the right column on lock. I’ve never had an interview that wasn’t followed by an offer. But I was still stuck in a dead-end job for years trying to get an interview.

Once I finally got an interview adjacent to my field, I was promoted within 6 months, then poached by another organization a year after that and had quadrupled my income in under 2 years.

But it took forever to get that process started.

It’s not the left to speak.