I drove through and spent a few nights in northern CA this spring on my way to SF. I prefer the southern part. Stayed overnight in Eureka and just south of Mendocino, most of the stretch was very rural i couldn’t believe how frequently I didn’t have cell service. Some beautiful scenery though
This shows just how much CA is North of SF. Over 5 hrs via the freaking 5.
It’s 6 hrs from SF to Crescent City, CA via the 101.
Or east. The mountain towns can be and the national parks are incredible though
And, importantly, relatively speaking, it takes about as much time to drive from LA to SF as to drive from SF to Oregon.
(Of course, the correct way to drive from LA to SF is via the 101 and 1, which is 8hr 15min or 9hr if entirely on the 1 from Santa Monica.)
FYI 80% of the water used in California (so stuff not like in rivers or whatever) is used in agriculture. 20% of that 80% (dafuq is this common core bullshit) is used on tree nuts like almonds. Drought is a major issue, but water shortages in California are driven by crops that use an intense amount of water, not because california can’t hold that many people.
Long version of the California water discussion happened mid-August in the climate thread.
Yeah. I mean he seemed like basically a really good guy, just kind of messed up. Probably like a lot of us if you get right down to it. Just happened to get famous. And maybe that didn’t help either.
Women, dude. Am I right?
Can’t live with them, and they can’t pee standing up.
Yeah, I saw the Disney Land documentary and it was orange groves everywhere.
Should have let COVID run wild and cleared out a lot of housing.
Well, it was interesting that everyone on here hates old boomers, but once covid hit it was like we have to do absolutely everything we can so that they survive.
I saw the need for COVID protocols to be a matter of preventing the health care system from collapsing. If that’s not a risk anymore, then I think we should just let them die.
This reminds me of how absurdly wide Texas is. When I drive from Phoenix to Austin, something like 60% of that trip is in Texas.
So it turns out Death To Smoochy was a documentary
That the video isn’t that unrealistic. Induced demand is a real thing that urban planners are aware of, but it doesn’t stop stupid North American politicians from continuing to think that traffic congestion is fixed by building more roads for cars.
1 Like
In my experience it also takes that same amount of time to drive approximately 5 miles within LA.
1 Like
It’s weird to see Californians talk about the northern half of the state the same way I would having driven through it once 10 years ago.
You can’t get out of a supply crisis with demand subsidies. There are only so many places to live in desirable urban locations in CA. Lots of people want to live in them, so landlords jack up rents until enough people can’t afford it and supply balances with demand. If you subsidize demand, that subsidy goes directly into landlords’ pockets, because now too many people can afford current rents, so they raise them until some people drop out of the bidding.
The problem here is very fundamentally that there are not enough places to live in CA. There are other problems too, but nothing is fixable until there are enough places to live.
I don’t think this is right. About 10% of California homes are vacant. The problem with the housing situation in California (and the US) isn’t that there isn’t adequate supply. I think think the problem is that the market is unbelievably inefficient in the traditional economic sense. For the amount of money that dedicated to housing, it’s shocking how bad the market is at aligning the supply and demand. The ineffectiveness of the whole system to align the interests of buyers, sellers, and builders drives bad outcomes more than tinkering with the supply and demand side forces though policy.
Jumping in late.
Just to say I’ve never heard anyone say “this is econ 101” in an argument without being almost 100% incorrect on how the economics in the situation actually work.
Econ is weird.
5 Likes