[March 9, 2020— I have re-written this article.]
I saw this news article with a video about a housing boom in Boulder, Colorado. I grew up in a suburb twenty miles to the east of Boulder where there was mostly empty prairie filling the space between the two areas. Needless to say there isn’t much empty prairie there any more. I’m surprised to read about the huge increase in the of value of the houses, although Boulder has always been a fancy area though.
I think it’s strange that they say there is such a supposed housing “shortage” though.. All of the right half of Colorado to the east of Boulder and the Rocky Mountains is flat with mostly just prairie and wheat fields, so what is stopping people from continuing to build outward? They could easily build fast trains going into the urban areas from such outlying areas.
The video clip shows a Boulder councilwoman actually complaining about the city being too affluent! I think it’s ridiculous to be complaining about that. Ask cities in the rust belt or much of the rest of the country what they think of that “problem”! My point is that there is unlimited space to expand outward to the east, so it only means that there would be an easy commute into the city for lower income residents— So what’s the big deal? The video falsely claims that “there isn’t any room to expand” while showing clips of driving in the mountains— but they don’t mention the unlimited expanse of prairie to the East. So why not just keep expanding outward?— The answer is because doing so wouldn’t let them implement their leftist agendas as easily.
