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CITE: The $1 billion city with no residents
In the arid plains of the southern New Mexico desert, between the site of the first atomic bomb test and the U.S.-Mexico border, a new city is rising from the sand. Planned for a population of 35,000, the city will showcase a modern business district downtown, and neat rows of terraced housing in the suburbs. It will be supplied with pristine streets, parks, malls and a church. But no one will ever call it home.
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So, we have the money to build tech cities in the middle of nowhere that will run and have nobody live in them, and we can't say to the homeless people, hey we have extra rooms in this city you can use? I assume when everything is done they plan to just tear it down anyways, I don't know, I see the logistical nightmare of using it in my scenario, it's just a crappy thought we'll do this and not use it to help those that need it.
Eureka?
This is really a great opportunity for technology and I can see technological advancements because of a city like this.