After weeks of local speculation, the purchasers of 55,000 acres of northern California land have been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m worth of agricultural and empty land, the New York Times has reported. Their goal is to build a utopian new town that will offer its thousands of residents reliable public transportation and urban living, all of which would operate using clean energy.

  • Khalic
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    151 year ago

    So working public transportation = utopia ?
    How can one country be so disconnected from reality?

    • @MasterBlaster
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      51 year ago

      Maybe it’s a utopia that also has clean energy and public transportation.

      Either way, I don’t trust the agenda. If they’re legitimately trying to help, something good might come of it, but it won’t be a utopia as humans will human.

      Hopefully some valuable lessons will be learned without too much suffering.

      • Khalic
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        11 year ago

        It’s like advertising running water. Utopias are supposed to be IDEAL cities. We’re talking no hunger, no disease, etc. Not just a few bus stations, something present in any major city.

        • @Kage520
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          21 year ago

          Not enough bus stations in every city. I’m like 5 miles in Florida heat away from the nearest bus station. I am only 2 miles from the nearest grocery store, so I’m not exactly rural. Public transit here is a joke.

          • @MasterBlaster
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            11 year ago

            Florida is one of those places hostile to anything that helps citizens using tax money.

            After all, that’s socialism, which is evil. /s

            It also has one of the most regressive tax systems in the country.

            Philadelphia has an okay transit system, though it is neglected, as does NYC.

          • Khalic
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            -11 year ago

            That was the gist yes, only americans think this is an acceptable situation.

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