Originally Posted by
kickstart
Here in Washington mixed use zoning has become the norm, and makes sense. Having skilled professionals split their time between their profession and service jobs is just fanciful nonsense.
+1 to both sentences.
Mixed use zoning has also been used several places I've lived as well.
And as for having skilled professionals split their time between their profession and service jobs ... it is, fortunately, fanciful nonsense because that would be a complete and utter nightmare. A thing of bad futuristic sci-fi shows.
If people want to take on two or more different jobs, and can arrange their schedules to do so, as I have done in the past, that's fine. In fact, I would even suggest taking on a part-time retail job at this time of year going into Christmas in order to save some money for a nice holiday or whatever you like. Lots of people do just that.
But living in a world where we're forced to work here for 3 days a week and there for 2 days a week by some law or something ... nightmarish futuristic sci-fi show material. What a dark and depressing world that would be.