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A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco (www.businessinsider.com)

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A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco::A company called Flannery Associates has been buying up land in Solano County for up to $15,000 per acre, court documents show.

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[-] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 97 points 10 months ago

I would be excited about a well planned walkable good public transportation city during a housing crisis, but 100% of tech bro utopia ideas have been disappointments.

[-] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 37 points 10 months ago

Wait…I thought Night City was fiction?

[-] Foggyfroggy@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

More like Cow City. Davis isn’t exactly vacation wonderland. Their claim to fame is pepper spraying the college kids in the face while sitting down.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I was thinking of Rapture.

[-] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 7 points 10 months ago

It's not fiction, just anticipation.

[-] yoz@aussie.zone 31 points 10 months ago

Lol jokes on them. My Norwegian visa is already being processed so good luck america. Lol

[-] Kage520@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

What's the visa process like for Norway? Do you have to have a job sponsoring your visa, or can you just prove work from home income?

[-] yoz@aussie.zone -1 points 10 months ago

https://www.udi.no/en/want-to-apply/permanent-residence/?c=aus

[-] frosty@pawb.social 6 points 10 months ago

Lykke til! :)

[-] yoz@aussie.zone 0 points 10 months ago

Takk :)

[-] binarybomb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

How can a regular joe like myself get a Norwegian visa????

[-] yoz@aussie.zone -2 points 10 months ago

https://www.udi.no/en/want-to-apply/permanent-residence/?c=aus

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Let me out!!!!

I don't have european family, so I would have to get accepted on my own merit. I think maybe I can learn spanish and get into spain by working in cybersecurity or some tech thing ig 😮‍💨

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

If you cook and clean I can marry you to help you get French citizenship 👌

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Im too puppypilled to cook and clean

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Do you at least give back scratches?

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Hehehe, sure!

[-] yoz@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Yes another way is to move to countries like Italy, Spain etc and once you become EU citizen then move to norway

[-] RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm sure housing will be super affordable for all those service industry workers that will be needed to keep this place running. /s

[-] JoBo@feddit.uk 13 points 10 months ago

Expect special visas for immigrant workers who will be effectively imprisoned there.

And an absolute social desert because no one else will want to be there.

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

This place is down the road from 2 major cities and several small towns. People already wanna be in this area. Even immigrant workers would have social mobility here, they could change jobs to working on vineyards, working in tech, or apply for nearby schools.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

If/when they build this, the local politics are going to be so unbelievably insufferable.

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago

Holy shit Elon will run for mayor

[-] Cobrachickenwing@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

A HOA for rich people. How exciting.

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Sounds like a sitcom in the making. I can just imagine Buffet bitching at Bezos over the height of his grass

[-] jscummy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

So...an HOA?

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 months ago

In 2017, Flannery Associates pitched an idea to turn the Solano County land into a walkable city powered by clean energy and housing tens of thousands of residents

Fuck it. I'm excited. We have so much demand for housing in this country, I don't even care if its a dystopian cyberpunk town anymore. Just give me a healthy place to live.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 9 points 10 months ago

Would be nice, but sadly most real life examples of a walkable, human scale environment are either prohibitively expensive to live in, or inhabited by rich folks ☹️

Given that this is being bankrolled by them, i'm curious to see what restrictions they'll apply, if any.

I wish a company would build and oversaturate the market with walkable, human scale areas, to force prices down across the board... but that's beyond wishful thinking lol

[-] jscummy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

"Got it, we'll build some $3500/mo studio apartments in the desert"

-Billionaires

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Funny that before the identities of the buyers was known, everyone's go to theory was that it was a nefarious CCP plot.

[-] ninjakttty@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Solano county is north east of SF, not north west like the article claims.

[-] relevantnanana@lemm.ee 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wouldn't northwest be the Pacific ocean?

[-] Taringano@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Waterworld confirmed

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Why barricade in Monaco when you can bring Monaco to barricade here?

[-] amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

California City 2.0 baby!

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

We should let them build this and then build high speed rail lines directly through the richest, whitest neighborhood to make up for all the 20th century’s city planning decisions.

And before you wanna have principled or reasonable opposition to my plan, think about how funny it would be to eminent domain the investors’ luxury condo building(s). America needs a good laugh sometimes too.

[-] usedtobelurking@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

OMG, Now I'm sure it will become Night City

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