BIKE: Re: Austin congestion is now decreasing!

[Patrick Goetz]

Joe Moore wrote:
> 
> I don't want to live closer to my neighbors and more people.  That is one of
> the reasons I moved
> to Austin.
> Austin has lower density living than other places I 've lived!
> This is a good thing in my mind!
> 

Austin's gotten too big to support this kind of land use, though. 
Sounds like you'd be happiest in a much smaller community, say 
population 7,000 or less.  If we really are at or near peak oil, this 
will become very much of a non-issue, unless you're willing and able to 
ride your bike everywhere (and if you are, then by all means, go for it 
-- you'll have even more solitude then.  :)  )  Most people are lazy and 
will want to live close in in order to avoid having to walk or bike for 
miles.  This, by the way, is how human communities have been constructed 
(people living close together) for over 10,000 years (with the exception 
of the last 60 in which we plundered the earth in order to spread out 
and get some elbow room).