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14:36 I see that it’s like that everywhere, pedestrians are just trying so hard to get run over by bikes.

Better public transportation and walkability are the ultimate solutions.

Will Toronto consider burying the Gardiner Expressway for good?

I live a few hours away but have never been. Need to check it out

this video is extremely misleading as california's population decline and rise in housing prices was because of more apartments being built on single family zoning land, increased taxes and bad politics, european cities are extremely unaffordable because of their high density development, and all high density development does is make the government richer, like in europe. And people fail to understand mainly poor people that more high density does not mean cheap housing, learn economics first

As someone who lives in this area, you have to recognize that a lot of what Carmel and other suburbs in Hamilton County have is WEALTH that makes a lot of this stuff possible.

A well run Republican city!

Carmel sucks. I hate driving anywhere near there

Texas will soon become second California and probably worse because of its weather.

I live here. I can confirm. It’s pretty great :)

Where did you get those unemployment numbers from? Unemployment was 5,3% tops in the 1970s according to Danish Statistics.

its dumb expensive to live here guys.

This video feels like it was sponsored by the city planners... to us residents, the new copenhagen waterfront is a soulless blemish on our city, it's buildings hideous, its infrastructure dysfunctional. The entire project was done over our heads, and the only people who use it are tourists and wealthy suburban people with too much time and money to spend. Copenhageners ourselves don't go there, and wish it had never been changed.

As an economist, the one problem is that if you have a poorly maintained area, you have increased crime. I hope this doesn't happen there.

I remember driving through Camel while i was learning to drive. I was overjoyed to see new, large buildings being made that actually looked visually appealing from the outside. It wasn't just the same bland modernist square1 you see everywhere. Some architect had a good time.

Brainard, as locals call him, had a bold vision for what Carmel could/should be. He garnered cash from annexing the outskirts of city limits very early in his tenure (late 90’s). This gave much better civil services to the citizens thru road improvements including divided two lane roads with pretty trees in median, roundabouts at every intersection with “nice” art or landscaping, as well as Carmel PD and Carmel FD (both best in country imo). These services were previously county services and mediocre at best. Also, Carmel has the best snow removal in the state. They get after it! We are more know for our roundabouts. Over 140 and less than 5 intersections in entire city have stop lights. With a city over 100k residents, that’s impressive! Brainard is a HUGE reason you’re seeing roundabouts nationwide. Brainard hosts city planners and mayors from around the world all the time showing what’s possible. Whether it’s Sunday morning or rush hour, to get from one side of town to the other takes almost the exact same time…they’re so efficient. If you could see what a sh!!thole downtown, midtown and city center was before Brainard, you’d be shocked. He’s got a sharp mind and had a great vision. This man knows exactly what taxes each lot is pulling in for the city. And as a resident, our property taxes aren’t flipping the bill for the amazing amenities we have (too many to count). This is done through bringing professional businesses into Carmel and filling the TIF coffers with their tax dollars. To give an idea on taxes, I pay under $4k on $600k home. That’s stupid cheap for what we get!! Now…Brainard wasn’t always transparent with how things were getting done but it’s probably because it’s too complicated to explain in two minutes. However, you could NEVER complain about the results. That’s why he won with no issue every election. In regard to public transit, we’re a suburb. You need a car for your daily life. However, the central hub of our community has great walking accessibility and plenty of free garages. Carmel offers so many free concerts, art fairs, a fun front porch weekend where local musical artist play solo or with their bands on people’s front porches through the downtown area. We have artomobilia which is an amazing weekend car show of exotic cars. My point is, we don’t have everything everyone wants or desires, you’ll need to go to heaven for that. However, through Brainard’s vision, he has created a great sense of community and pride for Carmel through our downtown development. We’re proud of our city. Example, he changed all the WELCOME TO CARMEL signs this summer to SWIMTOWN USA because we had 3 Olympic swimmers from Carmel competing in Paris. For every resident seeing those signs; there’s pride. For every guest entering Carmel; there’s awe and appreciation. As a Carmel grad and Carmel resident, I’m very very proud to call Carmel home. As for the Carmel haters, know this….an overwhelming majority of residents aren’t from here. They came here through work or because our quality of life and affordability (relative to where they came from…California,Chicago,etc). They are predominantly duel income families with a college education. They choose to raise a family here because the schools are amazing, we’re the safest small city in America, and they want the best opportunities for their kids. They are normal people. Do we have our a-holes and Karen’s? You betcha! But your town does too! An overwhelming amount are amazing and very generous people…just like YOUR TOWN! So if you’re a Hoosier and play Carmel in sports, stop chanting “we hate Carmel”. Be a good Hoosier and hate Purdue 😜 And to the lady that called us racist, please come back. I don’t know your experience but I don’t want to believe it. We are actually quite diverse here and interconnect with each other. My direct neighbors are an Indian family, an Asian family, a black family, a white old fart retire couple 😊 and young family with little kids. And we have the best get togethers. …and I’m a middle aged white dude with wife and kids. ……We’re all in this together !!

Uh no it ain't. We got too many god dang round a bouts and sculptures that we don't have space for what we truly need.

Nordhavn is expensive because byoghavn has to payback the largest loan in EU. Good urban design has been done to justify the high prices, but not necessarily the driver. Cph is becoming more expensive because there are more and more new Copenhagen’s and housing supply cannot follow the demand. On the top of that; construction costs increased 45% since 2021, and capital costs increased from 0-5%. The high quality of life offered by the city, through good urban design accelerates demand, prices increase due short supply. Good urban design is not necessarily for the few, and can be delivered at lower costs

Carmel is also one of the most expensive places to live in the entire state of Indiana, so if you’re thinking about moving there, you better make lots of money. Also there’s only round-a-bouts, almost no traffic lights.

It’s amazing. Don’t listen to the trolls in the comments. Carmel is great. Walkable, beautiful, etc.

Ive worked building Carmel, Noblesville and Zionsville and Fishers for 50 years. What I hear a lot is that folks move to Carmel from other states thinking it's the promise land and realize they can't stand the people. Then they typically sell and move to Nobolesville, Zionsville, or newly revitalized places throughout Indy. My personal 50 year experience is that there are very nice folks throughout Carmel. Except it does have a lot more individualist types that act like they are better than others. I always tried not to contract with most of Carmel businessmen because they were known dishonest. Yet again, not all Republicans are dishonest. Except most didn't get wealthy through honest hard work, if you know what I mean.

The rest of us also like to visit shops, restaurants and cinnema in Nordhavn. We come by car so the parking spots are appreciated.

Who brought the drugs in America THE EUROPEANS let's be clear about the history. They Targeted the inner city. No one in the inner city owns planes or boats which is how the drugs get into America. They brought it to American low income areas to destroy the colored culture and it did from the late 60's to the present I watched it with my own eyes. Now that the EUROPEANS have done Gentrification the urban cities they expect everything their Grandparents and parents created to just go away. The colored culture have been dealing what you are seeing now for over 60 years in their community. Now that we have Gentrification in the cities it's all of a sudden a big problem. Hopefully the EUROPEANS will wake up one day and realize it's an American problem and they will really crack down on drug trafficking. So we can reclaim our neighborhood's again. When the EUROPEANS take the ownership of what they have done and try to correct it American can be an amazing place to live again.

I visited Carmel earlier this year for the first time. It has a great downtown. Also thought it was so cool to to find a bar downtown that still allows for smoking inside, it was so backed and very nostalgic!

Caramel is not walkable all you have to do is just open your Google maps. I lived up there for 1 year. This video is cap

as a city of indianapolis native, I have to say that I have always hated Carmel kids for how good they are at sports and having money and literally everything else

Bummer I used to love to walk - now it hurts. And I can't AFFORD to pay for parking. I've found all the highrise dense new shopping developments feature expensive shops. Everything is too canned. Lack of unique. Too planned in fact.

Many folks I know who lived in Carmel moved out to get out of the high taxes and crowding. But they are moving outward from the Indy metro into more fast growing suburbs. Indy is spreading like weeds.

One thing you can be sure of is that Americans believe they can have it all.

Carmel is nice in general but you still need a car for 80% of activities. Its getting really crowded too.

I live in broad Ripple and have visited Carmel many times. While the new city development is impressive. The housing stock is blah. It's mostly 50s ranches and no or few examples of bungalows that are all over Broad Ripple.

During the middle ages walled cities were constructed for safety. Now major cities contain the very dangers that were originally defended against. The notion of large, dense urban areas is strictly the consequence of cultural inertia. The myths of scale and convenience have been replaced by the actuality of crime, filth and corruption. Carmel has extraordinary public safety but will be challenged by threats which are readily exported from other areas.

Please don’t blow too much smoke up Carmel’s ass, they’re already assholes. And for some reason it’s like the Mecca of Indiana, everyone wants to go to Carmel, it’s expensive as hell, but guess what you’re still in Indiana, like it’s cheaper to live somewhere in Houston than Carmel, also Geist, Indiana if you like water, is a nice place, we don’t usually flood, but it’s possible. Also of all the hickville states to live in, where you’re gonna see confederate flags hanging everywhere, if you’re into that, may as well go to Tennessee. Tennessee is the better Texas, and it’s mini

People would be best served by living in multi-gen homesteads on multi-acre plots, w gardens, greenhouses, chicken coups, solar panels, water wells... we should massively ramp up productivity w AI and automation, allow population to slowly decline, GDP to glide along at +0.5% per year while our population shrinks by 800k per year. Everyone moves back to the country. Old skyscrapers are carefully dismantled. Urban blight is slowly, steadily rolled up and returned to nature. Plastic single use items are removed from use. Most things are locally produced. Human beings re-assimilate to nature, community, family, spirituality. The evil ones who try to destroy these things are pacified, relocated away, contained and allowed to howl and rage on a controlled island somewhere, where their contamination will no longer spread and ruin everyone else's entire existence...

Its amazing how European the new buildings all look. This makes me wanna visit!

The kind of mixed-use development described here is good for some people, not everyone. It's good for a group that skews younger and single, and whose interests primarily focus on eating out, drinking, and entertainment. In other words, the meme: "Just consume product, then get excited for next product." If your interests are more like tending a large garden, growing roses, training your dog for agility courses, restoring a classic car, woodworking, or trying to build a business in your own home that requires more than just a home computer, you're going to want the typical suburban home with a garage, basement, and backyard.

This seems to be a carbon copy of Mason, Ohio

I mean prices are almost purely a product of supply and demand where the most important metric is the salary of the people living there. As the salaries in Copenhagen continue to explode towards the highest in the world, the house prices will naturally follow. The supply constraint that pushes up prices so high is because so many are moving from the countryside to Copenhagen, and there are artificial restraints on building more for political reasons. This is a bit different from what happened in Aarhus, the 2nd biggest city, which is experiencing almost everything Copenhagen did but with a 20 year lag. Aarhus is also quickly becoming extremely wealthy and desirable, but they alleviated the supply pressure by allowing way more construction in the suburbs. As a result, the prices in Aarhus are significantly lower while arguably enjoying the same benefits. The solution is to free the market and allow the speculators to build as more and the prices will stabilize. There is no need to build taller buildings with how many low quality buildings occupy land in the surrounding area of Copenhagen, which would be extremely lucrative if it was repurposed to office/apartment buildings. Basically the entire eastern coastline is dominated with industrial stuff.

I am very impressed with Carmel well done 👍

This interview was a good get!

I've lived in Carmel most of my life. From 4th grade through high school, left, came back, left, and came back again. My parents are still in the same house we moved into in 1978. We were here when the high school was half the size it is now. Most of what is Carmel now, used to be farmland when I was growing up. So we've definitely seen the changes over time. First off, let's get this right out of the way: Carmel is a HUGE SPRAWLING SUBURB of single family homes and some strip malls. Just check out Google Maps. I'm living currently in a cookie-cutter stamped housing development. My house outside and inside is much the same as almost all the other houses in my neighborhood. I ABSOLUTELY have to have a car to get around. Walking to anything is a non-starter. I can, technically, bike places, but the amount of traffic and stroads I have to deal with, I'm generally not going be going very far. The closets grocery, which is only 5 minutes or so away is on the other side of the high speed road of 146th street. I'm not biking there to get groceries! What they show here is old downtown Carmel, which is being slowly bulldozed to make way for mixed used housing (good), which is expensive (bad), and lacks any public transit to really get your around. Yes, you can walk on the Monon, and around downtown, but the closest grocery stores are quite a ways away. Pharmacies are further. Movie theater? Thats in strip mall which a huge parking lot that he talks about being 'bad', and getting there from all that high density housing in downtown? Thats a LONG walk. Forget it if you live anywhere outside downtown. My daughter's friends live on the other side of town, at least a 15 minute drive, on an almost direct and fast east-west road. Walking to her friends, nope. The high school? Giant parking lot! Probably the best (and worst) thing we have going is most of the businesses are located in a few areas of Carmel, and we don't have a lot of strip malls. Most everything here is housing, and a few areas of businesses along Meridian corridor or in downtown Carmel. But that lack of strip malls means we have huge areas of houses and have to go a long way to get to things like groceries. The West Clay subdivision has a lot over small lot, expensive homes, in a mini small-town style, but there is no grocery anywhere close to there. I've seen a number of these "Oooo, wow, Carmel's so awesome at providing a more pedestrian friendly, non-car focused, <insert other European city idea>" little articles, but in reality, very little of Carmel actually achieves this. And even the parts that 'do', don't really.

I just visited Copenhagen and the single most important thing to me about the waterfront is that you can bathe in it. Achieving that was quite an investment and locals, as well as tourists, really seem to enjoy it 🙌🏽

I’m sorry, what? Carmel is one of the most racist towns in the country, hostile to anyone not from Carmel (I’m from Indianapolis), and extremely difficult to navigate. Locally, Carmel is known for its corruption and dishonest practices. I always get so confused when I see media praising Carmel…

They priced out the people who ruined our great American cities

Gentrification is a buzzword. The challenge is poverty and economic mobility. The same problem that’s been challenging us for decades/centuries. Someone just changed the words we use at some point because poverty was/is hard to solve. Let’s stay focused on the real issues! Economic mobility = choices. Displacement = no choices.

I work in this neighborhood and the best thing to do there is leave. Cold, lifeless, and unwelcoming.

I grew up in a suburb where you could park your car at hime and walk everywhere you needed to go. I could walk to the grocery store, pizza place, library, pool, all the parks, school within 15- 20 mins. I loved growing up there and i miss it sometimes. Where I live now is rural. There are no sidewalks you have to drive really far to get groceries or do anything. The kids here drive far to go to school. It's terrible. The parks don't get invested in and our stores are all vacant and falling apart. Since I've lived here multiple buildings or houses have burned down. Yet they take our tax money and how they use it no one knows.

Expensive as shit and high taxes.

I sold my home in Texas because it was getting too expensive. Property taxes keep going up. They pass new billion dollar bonds to build new schools for the millions of new immigrants almost every year.

Carmel is dominated by cars morons