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And that nails it.

But there are two factors driving that:

1. Two income couples
2. Home ownership

When gas is cheap two income couples can locate so they both drive, and only balance the time to different locations. With gas costly, they may need to A. telework MUCH more B. Get jobs/locate where one person has a short commute, and the other can use transit C. get jobs that are located close together. And yes, B and C both favor employment in large centers, esp center cities.

As for home ownership, yeah, that makes it harder to move to jobs. But people do that anyway - the transition costs are high, but not infinite.

by AWalkerInTheCity on Mar 14, 2012 10:40 am • link • report

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