Infrastructure maintenance costs are higher the bigger area you want to cover.
Making small things are rarely efficient (transformers, inverters, heating, cooling, insulation).
Moving people one-by-one more distance will always require more energy, EVs also have to carry themselves, and thus the more people you can move per trip the better. (Hurray for electric buses.)
I already telecommute (our company already works full remote).
I mean if you have problems with needles and poop, but we don't, and most cities also don't, then it's probably not because SF is a city.
Anyway. I have no problem is people want more personal/private space, better sound insulation, a garden, a pool and whatever. But those luxuries should be priced in, so it encourages building up and compact, so more people can enjoy living in nice places. (Like next to a forest, lake, on a hill, in a valley, whatever).
Making small things are rarely efficient (transformers, inverters, heating, cooling, insulation).
Moving people one-by-one more distance will always require more energy, EVs also have to carry themselves, and thus the more people you can move per trip the better. (Hurray for electric buses.)
I already telecommute (our company already works full remote).
I mean if you have problems with needles and poop, but we don't, and most cities also don't, then it's probably not because SF is a city.
Anyway. I have no problem is people want more personal/private space, better sound insulation, a garden, a pool and whatever. But those luxuries should be priced in, so it encourages building up and compact, so more people can enjoy living in nice places. (Like next to a forest, lake, on a hill, in a valley, whatever).