Can we fix 33% Unemployment with 10.000 New jobs? | Cities Skylines 2

[@georgeoust]

If there are any citizens who weren’t able to graduate from elementary school they will be stuck forever as uneducated and won’t ever receive a higher educational status, so in order to have less uneducated citizens and prevent this from turning into a circle, the city will need to heavily invest in elementary schools.

[@Infrastructurist]

Very true!

[@vampdan]

Libraries can improve education level as well. But, yes; it is the education pipeline that is the problem. I wonder why crime isn't increased with problems like his? Crime should be rampant in a city like this.

[@Shepherd1234]

Also I saw that there is a weird game logic where kids/teenagers spend most of their time in lower education but graduate high school or college super fast like 4 days or something. So in this game, you end up with a ton of lower education buildings. You can check that

[@nikreeves-mclaren9824]

Also, adding more services will also add more jobs too (I say, without having seen the full video yet!)

[@hemigoleo]

On console I do this but they take forever just to go to school, even if I put 130% of tax money in schools, still. And I have businesses without workers!

[@kasonpatterson7171]

Would love to see luxury homes on the mountains. I always imagined Riverview to be somewhere near the rocky mountains, like Denver, and a lot of these places have luxury ski resorts as well as luxury large homes along the mountain ranges overlooking the city and ski resorts.

[@MrEast666]

YEES :D it's great idea - some high end homes for the elites far away from the "commoners" :D

[@yadleensingh1645]

I literally just was about to place a comment like this!!! It's look, you read my mind! I want to see something similar to Penticton, BC.(I am Canadian.) I can't add an image, though. Thinking something like Skaha Hills, has views of Skaha Lake, situated in layers up the mountain with private vineyard, add views of the city.

[@bathomoilwa4815]

Yess! I commented this a ton of episodes ago but I don’t think he read the comment. This was in the early days of river view I think. That right there is an episode I would watch and rewatch ;)

[@Infrastructurist]

Luxury homes in the mountains is still on the bucket list - made much more likely now with the addition of the big single-family homes from the UK pack!

[@BC_GaTechJkts]

I think you should try and do an actual stadium in the city, maybe just far off in the suburbs realistic to real life US where stadiums aren’t in the hearts of downtown. A massive super stadium would be a great addition to the skyline. Love this series ❤

[@vincentboersma6566]

Next to Bedford Downs, on the farm area would be a suiting and realistic place for a stadium

[@shadowdragonv8256]

We need a mall and an arena next to each other so you can build a super parking lot. That's what them americans love.

[@ADKaizenProductions]

Surrounded by stupidly expensive restaurants and shops

[@chuckleberrypieceofpie]

I would recommend adding more elementary schools to lower the un educated number

[@Infrastructurist]

Oh man you are so right - in fact I did not dare show you guys how the elementary school situation is looking right now. It seems there has been an influx of young people recently so there has been a shift in the demographics to a slightly younger average.

[@bobofthekerbals9797]

Yeah poorly educated cims are significantly more likely to find a job. There were over a thousand unfilled job positions because such a large portion of the population is completely uneducated. Its really annoying trying to find space for schools in this game though. Most of them feel like the scale is way too large for the number of students.

[@yadleensingh1645]

@@Infrastructurist Watching your videos leads me to believe that the next video will have absolutely nothing to do with the education system!😁😁😁

[@rocket3783]

we need an Infrastructurist ski resort in the mountains! Been hoping for it for months!

[@edwinkatona3258]

Me to but there are not lifts and gondolas 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@rocket3783]

@ can make them with benches and fences. ive tried before but im sure someone like infrastructurist could make it look good

[@edwinkatona3258]

@@rocket3783 yeah that’s true he have talent for this things lest hope 😌

[@qKuez]

Make Riverview great again with more manufacturing jobs and heavy industrial units, maybe even some subsidiary or very lenient tax reliefs too. Let the smokestacks rise!!

[@Infrastructurist]

Industrial revolution 2.0 baby!

[@koushikdas657]

Yes I will vote of be a MRGA .🫡.

[@Everie]

MaRGA! 😂

[@koushikdas657]

@@Everie no it's MRGA.

[@Rainman97x]

Infrastructure Week 2025!

[@aeon9158]

Yet another amazing video, I feel like the post-update fixes have forced both cities to take a lot of really rapid growth and it’s great to see them become what they have. Some ideas/projects I’d love to see in future videos: 1) You talked previously about Riverview’s downtown probably needing some densification and I think an episode dedicated towards densifying everything, starting from downtown and out, would be really great and interesting to watch (although more residential demand is probably gonna be needed first). 2) A riverwalk would be incredibly cool, if its a tenable thing to do at all in CS2. If we could build wider paths, it’d definitely be interesting. Maybe a custom, skinny pedestrian only road would do the trick, though I don’t know if it’d get any use without businesses along it. Even better opportunity to put maybe cute shops along the riverwalk too? 3) One of my favorite things about Chicago or any city is when neighborhoods feel completely different from each other and have a general vibe or aesthetic to them. Getting off the train in Chicago’s art district, Pilsen, is a rush as you’re immediately flooded with murals across the entire train station and the steps down. Maybe some specializing and heavy detailing in specific parts of town would be cool. 4) A stadium area could definitely benefit the citys top down look, and it’s been pretty popular with other CS2 KZbinrs recently, and I’d love to see how you’d do it. 5) A full campsite with trails and state or national park, albeit not the most noticeable thing, would be a fun and very fitting addition

[@theevilmoppet]

If the city is broadly densified it would be a good time afterward to take another look at public transit and maybe add a new tram line connecting to the others that doesn’t go through the central transfer point in downtown, to lighten the ridiculous numbers transferring or getting off there.

[@OKZ15]

I think it would be interesting to just tap into district policies, particularly adding speed bumps, large truck bans in neighborhoods, and maybe a roadside parking fee in dtwn as well as other policies. Might generate a chunk of change and will improve citizen's life quality.

[@muetterdini]

Yes! :)

[@Joe125g20]

Minor suggestion! Please add a little path through the woods for the workers of the three office buildings behind the supermarket - they'll all be going to the bakery for lunch every day and you just know there's a desire path through the woods to save time!

[@Usergnomes]

I bet adding more primary extraction industry to the outskirts of your city would take a big bite out of the uneducated unemployment figure, and reduce reliance on imports for extracted raw materials in turn helping your manufacturing base (and tax revenues) to grow. With mountainsides across the city covered in pine you could have a nice little forestry district or two set up, and build it out towards unlocking the paper factory etc. The less-visited southern end of your map would be a great spot for this.

[@filipbogusz]

Great episode, as always. My suggestion is that it'd be nice if you add more farms and rural suburbs - as you've removed a bunch of them in the more recent episodes. It could also help the supply chain + solve the unemployment crisis even further.

[@RandyJGJ]

As someone has said, with such a straight up no education population, you should looking at your education pipeline.

[@Zeph_42]

Did the rural farms that got eaten by expansion projects ever get rebuilt? Make some new farms on the far outskirts of the city now that core of Riverview has sprawled out over the old ones!

[@anonimus1230]

I would love to see a gigant public housing project south from the airport on the other side of the river

[@zblurth]

So I seen another comment pointing it out, but uneducated people can get educated with more school stuff. Also I think we need ANOTHER public transport episode... but that is just my EU side coming out. Anyway love this city and your style of video / narration

[@highground66]

Thats such a shame that you removed the farm by the pond. It was really charming

[@Infrastructurist]

Imagine how much bank the owner made though, selling that location off to investors :-D

[@CitiesInRetro]

Awesome video, Suggestion: I would love to see more extraction in the mountains of the outskirts of Riverview It would be very cool to see some Mines carving into the mountains and it would be a challenging build, making for a very interesting episode.

[@yadleensingh1645]

Along with some small mining towns and this would be perfect!

[@bxsi15k33]

You are one of my favorite KZbinrs ever on this platform keep up the good work!

[@JustJulius99]

I think what could be a nice touch is if u add some grey-ish rocky surface along the rail lines.

[@Jackweise1]

Love the videos! For the sake of realism I think you should have more petrol stations along the roads. A LOT more... especially along the highways!

[@mirzaazq]

Riverview almost reaching 200k population and yet we still have no subway system

[@thooterhooter]

What the FUCK is a subway🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@ithen75]

What catches my eye every time I look into the harbor is the bright peer. I would make the whole thing look a bit dingier, I think that would be more realistic. But all in all, the city has turned out really well so far. I'm looking forward to the next episodes. Thank you and keep up the good work!

[@aryankhandelwal787]

a skitown near up mountain would be awesome addition.

[@nrbq3110]

I really enjoy every episodes of yours. It really gives me a time for real entertainment and I appreciate your job. As Riverview has been grown to a pretty big city since its establishment, what do you think of transferring the city theme into a more green and sustainable city, a challenge like real major cities nowadays are facing. Since you have a lot of mountains maybe you can think of adding wind turbines and geothermal to generate electricity and get rid of fossil fuel or nuclear related plants to start with. Not so much people broadcasting cities skylines2 has been up for this kind of challenge but I think you will be the one that can take this challenge.

[@tigonologdring9189]

Nice city fix Infra! Kudos to Brucey and the InfoLoom: for his first coding and UI work it's super impressive (shames me every time I see it used). That odd un-zonable bit... does it have an errant singularity-style node of something there? I remember CPP had one similar with a weird single tram node. The other possibility is an _Area_ left hanging about... What to build next? Either mountain-based shale oil fields (to serve the refinery) or some sort of ski/mountain leisure resort would be my thinking.

[@HediSmida]

49:15 Nitpick: there should be an access road to the back of these stores. And generally for commercial retail buildings so that the trucks can actually deliver the goods to the back of the buildings ;)

[@JordonMcConnell]

The feel when you are one of the 5 employees in a 40 floor skyscraper and have to maintain an elevator shaft all by yourself 😔✊🏼

[@mallysh1998]

Hey bud, so good to see Riverview back! I guess when education is fixed by American standards, unemployment is low, now it’s time to add more jobs in transportation which will also help with unemployment rate😊 A station in that densified area is definitely worth thinking of as well as some sort of rapid transit to Sterling and Burlow😅 anyways, great project, love it!

[@AvatsAirbus]

Yay! I’ve been Looking forward to this for months! ❤

[@guillelopez3502]

Mmm 30% unemployment🎉 Feels like home Greetings from Spain😂

Love the series so much! Can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fix the end of River Drive? That massive intersection is begging for conversion to an interchange

[@RubiGMM]

One of the big improvements coming back to Riverview is the AMAZING jump in performance coming from the PC upgrade. It was much needed and oh boy does the game feel way smoother now.

[@muhammadarqab7130]

You had me hooked on “…create tens of thousands of jobs!” 😂🔥 What a nice Sunday treat!

[@jsonattard2179]

Build. anew exurban town, like Dendrick and connect the two areas with a few farms

[@tommeakin1732]

43:06 It's a play off "Morrisons" - and in English, we don't "le prononce", or "le require" - we "say", and "need" 😊

[@yadleensingh1645]

Would love to see a luxury homes development up in the mountains. Similar to homes in the Okanagan Valley (Canadian side) with tiers going up the mountain with great views of some body of water. Also needs to have a golf course going around the back of the development.

[@tom_j.]

I just started watching this series yesterday and I thought there would me no more Riverview updates, what a nice surprise, I'm halfway done but just wanted to come here to comment

[@guillelopez3502]

Chirperbank Field needs a renovation! Proper stadium would be a great addition to that part of the city

[@homyitorgamez566]

I just remembered how much I love this series

[@user-th3vr1oi8k]

Look how you tackle to the unemployment in this episode I feel like coming back I'm a tackle the educational for all Needs would be nice keep up the good content😊😊😊

[@RWDtech]

Omg that office worker bug is almost worth just abandoning the city lol. I'm very impressed with your patience!

[@heathkinzer7772]

All those gorgeous mountains with so little public access! How about a grand state park!?

[@knockshinnoch1950]

Great project- love the immersion

[@drjonritz]

Would be cool to see a mining operation far up in the mountains...trucked down to a dock/rail and processing...a mining town is a shady place to be... Could be a cool place to implement gondolas or a rickety light rail down the slops

[@Trentwhetsel]

Man. Thats a devastating bug only having 5 employees in those massive buildings. Hopefully that is fixed soon. Game looks so good, but so many little issues!

[@alexhentschel1080]

ive never understood what a High density commercial building even is?? perhaps with the exception of a mall or something like that. maybe im jaded bc im American, but "high density" commercial typically expands outwards, not upwards. I've always thought the High density commercial ought to be medium density office

[@theevilmoppet]

I live in Chicago. We have a lot of buildings downtown that look like the high density commercial stuff. Oftentimes when they’re on the taller side it’s because the top 3-5 floors are offices, but the rest is genuinely just a very tall vertical mall. One of them, I think it’s 6 floors, has an underground level with a couple shops that’s also a transfer between the two busiest metro lines.

[@SmellLikeDoritos]

sorry fam you just are very american-brained

[@jazzywiggly]

It might be worth using a heavily-customized Realistic Population mod to gently rebalance tower capacity. It's too weird that a massive high-density level 5 office has the same or fewer employees than a low-density office. Same applies for high-density residential.

[@Gentleman...Driver]

I kind of hate it that you made the Valley Lake industrial as well.

[@voxelemur]

I really wish these initially larger "low density" office buildings could house multiple smaller startup companies, as is common with office buildings, and then later as the company grows it could create demand for larger offices and move out or kick the smaller companies out, which would move to either vacant high density or other newer low level low density offices.

[@voxelemur]

If possible, it could solve the issue of having a 2-story level 1 building with only 30 employees when the job density could be much higher on the same floor footprint.

[@michaelnewjerseydiecast5535]

It's crazy that you have unemployment rate at 33.3 rate and i love Riverview and hopefully all these industrial, office and commercial jobs should help.

[@DrazikLeVideaste]

So cool to see problem solving, I guess paradox’s bad planning makes great crisis simulation in game. 😂

[@joshuawiggins3891]

Looking good you most definitely helped out your unemployment a ton there have you thought about zoning some industrial parks either across the river from your airport which would require you to buy some more tiles or possibly the area up by the lake and the dam always enjoy your content and detailing, keep pushing out the epic videos I'll be here also you would be surprised at how many high streets there are in the US. and a question are farms employing the uneducated or no and if the city hires them would this be like buses and parks maintenance or what?

[@raemars580]

Love Riverside!!! ❤❤❤❤❤ That’s why it’s a shame that every district doesn’t have an elementary school. Educate the uneducated and Riverside will survive!!

[@rthomp03]

I for one really appreciate that you're playing the game and trying to work with the mechanics. While I appreciate the creators who can "paint" a perfect looking city, it's kind of underwhelming that they don't play with any constraints that would apply to a normal city. Not that the C:S2 simulation is perfect, but at least you're trying to play within the bounds of the game. It makes it more interesting. I would go so far as to say you should minimize the amount of pausing you do. I understand pausing if you're about the re-work a highway interchange or utility lines, and you don't want a major disruption. But trying to solve the unemployment/housing crisis in real time would be better than pausing and plopping down a magic new neighborhood or industrial park.

[@curry_eo162]

For those offices bug, u couldve also just put the Tax at maximun so everyone leaves the building and then lower it to get them back, so u get the same building

[@manojkumarsr2095]

Try some hill stations, with plantations, some unique parks statues., try to run a mountain train

[@manojkumarsr2095]

Train with a lower speed, curve uphill road

[@Sepen77]

Would you consider releasing your custom zones onto PDX mods? Things like the Medium Density Offices using the High Density assets, and the Low Density Residential using the motel assets (from the older Scandinavian series), for example.

[@nikreeves-mclaren9824]

Would love to know how these were made too!

[@edwinkatona3258]

Finally this city I can’t believe pls stay in this city longer more episodes 🙏🏼🙏🏼 it’s want some more big projects some new industrial park with car factory or heavy industrial, or another university campus also you have location close to airport where are 3 highways meet you should make there fluent crossroads or how I saw make some luxury houses up at mountains with view on city 👍🏼 Btw I also don’t understand that number of people for some buildings normally city like this should already have around 1 million inhabitants not 180K 😅😅😅

[@tacanerd]

I have no idea why the cityscape has gradually started to feel like déjà vu. For me, the CBD skyline looks similar to Sydney, Australia.

[@macaidwin]

And maybe add more city jobs, road maintenance, park maintenance, government buildings might help with uneducated jobs? I don't know how your budgets for services are set, but raising them might also help, citizens also become happier and more efficient.

[@lucasnery604]

You need to fix that spaghetti junction next to the airport

[@RemiDobbs]

Seconding more elementary schools but also maybe more primary industries will help the uneducated unemployment problem? Also maybe an expansion of parks and other city services that'd employ uneducated workers

[@pawelr]

Hi Infra. I'm a little dissapointed on the state of CS detailer youtubers. I remember good old days when $2.20 used an excavator props to build a merry-go-round in his Springfield series and strictoaster used a bunch of stairs to tackle great height difference near a parking in his Nydal series. All of that was creative and surprising. Since CS2 came out, all youtuber videos are the same - meaning: make a random "organic grid" road layout, plop as many building as possible and try to match the theme of the buildings and use trees and decals as a finishing touch. I miss these creative works like stairs or self-made merry-go-rounds. CS2 videos are all the same, lacking creativity. Does anyone agree?

[@Infrastructurist]

Hi Pawel! While I definitely get what you're saying about there being less heavy-detailing content, I don't agree at all that all CS2 videos are the same - just compare Sully's Los Angeles to a management-heavy 100 % Vanilla series. As for the current "lack" of detailing content, I can of course only answer for myself, but something I immediately liked about CS2 (despite all its flaws - ESPECIALLY on launch) is that the overall vanilla aesthetic is just much more realistic (or at least less of an eyesore) in comparison to vanilla CS1. Some CS2 buildings have such a great prop and surface layout and rotation that there's barely anything I want to change. Now don't me wrong, I loved detailing in CS1 and seeing it all come together, but at times it also felt like a chore - like something that was a necessity to make things look somewhat realistic, or just pretty. I also more or less completely ignored the simulation in CS1, finding it shallow, and while I know some people disagree completely, I personally just enjoy the actual city management part more in CS2. With all that said, this particular city (Riverview) is probably my least detailed, as it was started all the way back in early-access, before all the mods and techniques we know now. I suspect that there will be an increase in creative heavy detail builds as the asset editor is officially released with custom assets :-)

[@andreasalbarosa7247]

We should build a big steel production complex in the city

[@FigureInMind]

Build on the other side of the river other side of the airport. A new development. Another small town with jobs.

[@Thereoncewasashipthatputtosea]

You better complete Fort John downtown ASAP

[@amenboughanmi5819]

UNIVERSITY COMPLEX AND A LAGRE FOOTBALL STADIUM WITH UNIVERSITY HOUSING IS SOMETHING THE CITY NEEDS MAYBE AN OLYMPIC CITY

[@PartTimeMAYOR]

Perfect example of how to use trees in your city.. Wow man

[@anthonybenvenuti4557]

i love all your videos!

[@mattfirestone1]

Save the cementary!

[@dangerousfhantom7464]

Have you thought about building another small commuter town further downriver from the airport?

[@invictaluna]

Hey, can I ask your lumina and map texture replacer settings. You game looks amazing

[@tracycui3800]

You should make valley lake into valley lake memorial regional park. But its too late

[@Whyaford]

My home country unemployment is at 32.1% nou but it was at 33.5% unemployment and it south Africa

[@benjaminbauer6301]

Instead of replacing every single bugged office building, you could also raise the tax for office to max. Let the game run a while, so all office companies will leave the city. Then, turn back to previous tax and watch the offices coming back with much more workplaces. With all the money on the cities account, it wouldn't be a problem not having any office company in the city for a little while 😉

[@jonathanvandenklaassenvrie4022]

Would love to see a working class neigbourhood near the port

[@jonathanvandenklaassenvrie4022]

Thanks!

[@thegreatdodo5092]

If you think about it, it kind of makes sense that the city is hired uneducated workers. Nobody really knew how to handle the dire economy. I'd say it's some nice role-playing! 😅

[@dassolution]

The unemployment rate decreased by 36%, primarily due to job creation and a shrinking labour force. Worryingly your labour force dropped by 10k from 99k to 89k (66,084 [employed] / (1 - 0.333 [unemployment rate]) = 99,069 labour force) to (70,409 [employed] / (1 - 0.213 [unemployment rate]) = 89,349 labour force). So you added ~4k jobs, but the labour force was significantly reduced by about 10k. I assume those who lost their jobs when the buildings were demolished just left the city rather than looking for a new job.

[@sene2779]

i feel like ur so talented and ur cities looks fab af but watching ur vids gets so draining sometimes i feel like u should put more of some speed up moments

[@35drm07]

There must be transitioning between downtown to medium density and form medium density to low density housing

[@historify-x1z]

make a new downtown in north of river view (north means the place where you showed us the elevation difference of riverview pls)

[@deepon05]

Question: On the InfoLoom mod, does that mod distinguish the difference between uneducated adults and children in the population demographics?

[@charliekliewer2643]

Maybe you should build an american city on a Greenland themed map now ! 😅 Im kidding of course ! You're my favourite Danish guy hehe

[@johannesvongienanth5999]

Love your videos

[@Everie]

That's what I call an AMERICAN CITY! Anyways, do you know what Riverview lacks? A militar base to ensure all that PRECIOUS OIL has FREEDOM!

[@HydraskuLL_121]

A full city car pov plz

[@Equulai]

We need cube services back!

[@veckie]

Do you know which tool I can use to lower the water level of the river? Sometimes the water level rises and floods some parts of my city, which is extremely annoying. Is there any tool to lower the water?

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

You are aware that you also can use wide sidewalk instead of quay upgrade on parking roads to disable parking on one side?

[@wutt5176]

3200 unemployed highly educated individuals is like the world we live in rn

[@danius4043]

Tried on release and didn't like it much and it ran like doo doo. Is it better now? And with mods only?

[@olli8977]

How about move it reset building? ( i play still cs1 so i Dont know If even there is function like that) but building Would atlest get on the rihgt job count

[@philips0905]

I was wondering after having built such a city, how's your performance doing?

[@AceGigalo]

IDK why my city is always at like 75% unemployment

[@Hubbubb22-citiesskylines]

InfoLoom!!! 🎉🎉🎉 🙌🙌🙌

[@Hubbubb22-citiesskylines]

note-you’re highest rate of unhoused cims is in the Highly Educated category. Also, 30k of them are under-employed, so they are also cannibalizing jobs from well-educated workers. You could afford to raise residential property taxes on highly educated workers to 20% and it will help bring down both your unemployment and your rate of unhoused cims (without affecting happiness too much). 20%-30% is the red zone, which gives them more incentive to leave when they can’t find work or a home (instead of hanging out in a park somewhere).

[@Hubbubb22-citiesskylines]

p.s. resource extraction of ore/coal has high rates of employment of uneducated workers.

[@nikhileshbhandari]

make a mountain village please 🙏 ❤

[@schmitty8225]

More schools need to be built and you said most uneducated went to work for the city so more city services need to be created also.

[@BendyHotRod]

For a sec i thought it said fixing unemployment with 10.000 jobs (10 jobs). Like, i didn't get it was supposed to be 10,000. DX