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)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 27 Aug 2023 04:01
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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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amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world on 27 Aug 2023 05:16 next collapse

California City 2.0 baby!

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 27 Aug 2023 04:29 next collapse

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

ninjakttty@lemmy.world on 27 Aug 2023 06:19 next collapse

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

relevantnanana@lemm.ee on 27 Aug 2023 10:57 collapse

Wouldn’t northwest be the Pacific ocean?

Taringano@lemm.ee on 27 Aug 2023 17:56 collapse

Waterworld confirmed

SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca on 27 Aug 2023 06:53 next collapse

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 on 27 Aug 2023 07:59 next collapse

Wait…I thought Night City was fiction?

spittingimage@lemmy.world on 27 Aug 2023 08:47 next collapse

I was thinking of Rapture.

Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu on 27 Aug 2023 09:53 next collapse

It’s not fiction, just anticipation.

Foggyfroggy@lemmy.world on 27 Aug 2023 11:56 collapse

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.

yoz@aussie.zone on 27 Aug 2023 10:15 next collapse

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

Kage520@lemmy.world on 27 Aug 2023 12:11 next collapse

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 on 27 Aug 2023 22:39 collapse
frosty@pawb.social on 27 Aug 2023 13:15 next collapse

Lykke til! :)

yoz@aussie.zone on 27 Aug 2023 22:40 collapse

Takk :)

binarybomb@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Aug 2023 16:53 next collapse

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

yoz@aussie.zone on 27 Aug 2023 22:39 collapse
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Aug 2023 22:47 collapse

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 😮‍💨

yoz@aussie.zone on 27 Aug 2023 23:09 next collapse

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

Noodle07@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 2023 18:39 collapse

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

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Aug 2023 19:23 collapse

Im too puppypilled to cook and clean

Noodle07@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 2023 19:47 collapse

Do you at least give back scratches?

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Aug 2023 21:57 collapse

Hehehe, sure!

cyd@lemmy.world on 27 Aug 2023 10:20 next collapse

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

ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world on 27 Aug 2023 12:23 next collapse

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

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Aug 2023 22:44 collapse

Holy shit Elon will run for mayor

RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world on 27 Aug 2023 15:22 next collapse

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 on 27 Aug 2023 19:37 collapse

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 on 27 Aug 2023 22:44 collapse

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.

Cobrachickenwing@lemmy.ca on 27 Aug 2023 21:45 next collapse

A HOA for rich people. How exciting.

CobblerScholar@lemmy.world on 27 Aug 2023 22:09 next collapse

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 on 28 Aug 2023 21:54 collapse

So…an HOA?

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Aug 2023 22:40 next collapse

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 on 27 Aug 2023 23:43 next collapse

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 on 28 Aug 2023 21:58 collapse

“Got it, we’ll build some $3500/mo studio apartments in the desert”

-Billionaires

ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 2023 00:07 next collapse

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 on 29 Aug 2023 04:55 collapse

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