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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Hey, I was asked what you do with an abandoned home. Supposedly, if it was still in usable shape, it wouldn't be abandoned...
Assuming, then, that the house as-is is not usable, recycling its materials into a new dwelling makes sense. And as I said, it might cost more to tear it apart, but as others have pointed out, it is a source of jobs. And I maintain that repurposing used materials is still better than mining and milling new materials.
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Well, it was VR's doomsday scenario, not mine. My point is that to get rid of suburbs, you have to move the suburbanites, into a downsized, centrally planned, set of dwellings. This may solve the source of individual suburban fuel useage, but at the cost of scrapping a
huge economic investment, that would dwarf the saving in fuel. Furthermore, I doubt if you would get much movement (some of course) from the suburbs to that small centrally planned housing. At least, not voluntarily. And to complete the thought chain, if it's a non-voluntary relocation, what do you do with all that wasted resource.