Neville's Breakfast
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For a start, you're assuming that somewhere will stay "undesirable" permanently. It may well be that your undesirable town is prime real estate. I saw a survey this week that said that Crawley is one of the best places to live in the country - that's a far cry from its reputation when I was young. I have experience of this: I moved to Balham in the mid-80s when its claim to fame was the most crime-ridden station on the Underground - it was cheap though. A few years ago, I saw a flat in my old block for sale at just under a million quid, it's become a very 'in' area.
Secondly, we may see more inducements for teachers to live nearer schools so they're part of the community.
Finally, as I posted earlier, we'll start seeing road price differentials where hiring a self-drive car in urban areas may would cost a fraction of the urban charge.
That's always assuming that schools continue to exist and kids aren't taught at home by remote link, of course.
For everywhere to be prime real estate we are going to have to magic away some quite big social problems. I’m afraid nothing would induce us to live in Merseyside rather than Cheshire and we are not alone. If you are providing driverless cars for all the people who commute to work or drive to the doctors etc then you aren’t really taking cars off the road. I don’t disagree that there may be a reduction in cars but think the outcome you describe is a little extreme and one much more likely to happen in cities than the rest of the country.