Maybe if we combined more investment and infrastructure like this for smaller and more remote communities, while promoting more remote work opportunities and scrapping pointless back-to-office mandates, we could start to make housing not just more affordable, but also allow people to live in housing they actually want to live in, detached homes with yards and communities, not shoebox condos in a sea of other anonymous humans. Small towns and villages need a renaissance, and unlike many places we have the the luxury of having more than enough land to be able to do that without being forced into a single-minded pursuit of urbanism.
There’s nothing wrong with urbanism and city life, but it should be a choice based on preference, not a choice that economics increasingly forces of people into against their will because they can only get jobs where they have to commute and work downtown for no reason or because they can’t afford any other style of living.
Good. Smaller regions need news too, mostly the ones served almost only by American investors (New Brunswick, for example)
The expansion doesn’t include anything east of Quebec, so New Brunswick isn’t getting any new reporters.
Maybe if we combined more investment and infrastructure like this for smaller and more remote communities, while promoting more remote work opportunities and scrapping pointless back-to-office mandates, we could start to make housing not just more affordable, but also allow people to live in housing they actually want to live in, detached homes with yards and communities, not shoebox condos in a sea of other anonymous humans. Small towns and villages need a renaissance, and unlike many places we have the the luxury of having more than enough land to be able to do that without being forced into a single-minded pursuit of urbanism.
There’s nothing wrong with urbanism and city life, but it should be a choice based on preference, not a choice that economics increasingly forces of people into against their will because they can only get jobs where they have to commute and work downtown for no reason or because they can’t afford any other style of living.