{"id":195643,"date":"2008-06-24T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/24\/high-gas-prices-put-crimp-in-exurban-life\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T04:17:00","slug":"high-gas-prices-put-crimp-in-exurban-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/24\/high-gas-prices-put-crimp-in-exurban-life\/","title":{"rendered":"High Gas Prices Put Crimp in Exurban Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I think that the predictions of a rapid decline in far suburbs is premature, it&#8217;s clear that increases in fuel costs, and hence the cost of commuting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/24\/business\/exurbs.php\">have driven some changes in attitudes regarding distant suburbs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I disagree with land use expert Christopher Leinberger, who says, &#8220;Many low-density suburbs and McMansion subdivisions, including some that are lovely and affluent today, may become what inner cities became in the 1960s and &#8217;70s &#8211; slums characterized by poverty, crime and decay,&#8221; if just because these McMansion subdivisions were remarkably poorly constructed, and the houses will not survive long enough to become slums.<\/p>\n<p>I would expect, however, that as the exurbs were first into the housing crash, they will be the last out, and the land values won&#8217;t reach the relative levels that they had to more urban neighborhoods ever again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I think that the predictions of a rapid decline in far suburbs is premature, it&#8217;s clear that increases in fuel costs, and hence the cost of commuting have driven some changes in attitudes regarding distant suburbs. I disagree with land use expert Christopher Leinberger, who says, &#8220;Many low-density suburbs and McMansion subdivisions, including some &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,1088,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-real-estate","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}