Feel the Burn

My purchase of a house in central Victoria eight years ago just keeps getting better and better (I can walk everywhere I want to go, daily amenities within 500m, all of downtown within 2km). Paul Krugman posts on a map from the Sydney Morning Herald, showing the expected proportion of family income that will go to petrol as prices rise.

I will refrain from gloating to my colleagues in exurban Atlanta and Phoenix. Except this probably counts. Oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound: suckers!

I wonder if David Brooks will recant his (surprisingly recent) love letter to the exurb. James Howard Kunstler hasn’t been that good at predicting the future, but his take on Atlanta from five years ago is looking more and more spot on.