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"Smart cities" are becoming very expensive to live in.
The COL in these smart cities are all over 100% and are trending to 115-120%.
Definitely not a place for the normal working joe to live in.
I'm watching Austin TX being transformed into one.
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LOL! A city filled with computer nerds. No need for gyms, parks, or community softball games. Just Halo, Wii golf and people making stupid and snarky remarks on C-D . . . wait a minute . . .
"Smart cities" are becoming very expensive to live in.
The COL in these smart cities are all over 100% and are trending to 115-120%.
Definitely not a place for the normal working joe to live in.
I'm watching Austin TX being transformed into one.
You mean you are watching Austin turn into a city that people want to live in? And that is bad how?
Here is a link to a real article about this topic that isn't full of propaganda garbage in the OP link.
The only serious flaw I see in this idea is that Microsoft is trying to build it around Windows 8.
Well why not ? All this smart growth is based on computers doing the work.
Governments don't hire programmers anymore. They buy off the shelf products and outsource the customizing and running of that software.
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