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I would call Tanoan a generic example of wealth. Yes, it can be expensive, but it lacks any of the character found in the far Northeast Heights or many of the areas closer to the river.
I used to work as a landscaper and would periodically go into Tanoan with a crew to plant trees and shrubs and such. It was, in my opinion, a creepy atmosphere and the people I met there, my clients, were rude.
Across the city, wealthier clients were generally ruder than middle-class folks, but in Tanoan it raised my hackles the way my crew was treated. I suspect this was because, being gated off, the residents became extra defensive about outsiders in their midst.
I don't mean to slander all the residents of Tanoan, it is just a very different attitude than what I usually experienced in the course of that job.
And about living in Cedar Crest, Sandia Knolls, Tijeras, Edgewood and the other East Mountain "suburbs" - I used to work at UNM and many of my colleagues who lived in the East Mountain area would always get to leave work early when it started snowing bad. This was so that they could make it home before I-40 would close in Tijeras Canyon.
So the winter in Cedar Crest is colder than in Albuquerque, but it is quite beautiful there and in most of the East Mountain burbs.
I used to work as a landscaper and would periodically go into Tanoan with a crew to plant trees and shrubs and such. It was, in my opinion, a creepy atmosphere and the people I met there, my clients, were rude.
Never had the pleasure of actually entering Tanoan. I guess the heavily-armed guards at the entrance must've scared me away.
There was a big debate a while back on the General US forum about what constitutes a "suburb." Apparently it's become a very subjective term.
Some people wouldn't consider Cedar Crest a suburb because of the lack of uniformly developed continuity between it, and ABQ proper. Others would say it is a suburb because it's used as a bedroom community [which others would then refer to as an exurb, or satellite city]. It's all just so confusing.
> ... make it home before I-40 would close in Tijeras Canyon ...
That's a key point. Generally, in December and January, when the sun
sets earliest, the roads start to freeze up at 5 pm or so. As long as you
have a job situation that allows you to leave by 4 pm, you'll almost never
be stranded on the West side of the mountains. You might have a long
drive home, but leaving early is key.
rybert stated:
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> I wouldn't call them suburbs, as many of those
> little towns have some of their own industry.
You mean like that little burb on the hill that you like to bash
and pound on whenever someone brings it up? Don't they have
a little Intel plant on the edge of town? Don't they have a little
Hewlett-Packard facility there? That's industry.
So, ... if they have industry of their own, are they
then -- not -- a suburb?
I'm just not comfortable with that definition.
I'm comfortable with saying that if there are a large number of commuters
coming from a town where they live to the big town where they work, the
town where they live is a suburb.
I'm also arbitrarily declaring any place that is more than an hour away to
*not* be a suburb, so Socorro and Santa Fe don't count as suburbs of
Albuquerque.
There are people who regularly commute more than an hour within cities
like Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas, etc, but I'm just not qualified to discuss
psychological disorders.
I'm also arbitrarily declaring any place that is more than an hour away to *not* be a suburb, so Socorro and Santa Fe don't count as suburbs of Albuquerque.
There are people who regularly commute more than an hour within cities
like Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas, etc, but I'm just not qualified to discuss
psychological disorders.
So anything more than an hour's commute is not a suburb, unless the commuter is insane. Got it.
Here are some definitions of suburb from that "other" thread:
1) A residential district located on the outskirts of a city.
2) Suburbs are inhabited districts located either inside a town or city's limits or just outside its official limits, or the outer elements of a conurbation [huh?].
3) A residential area within the boundaries of a town or city.
4) An area of housing around the edge of a city.
5) A town or small city located near and dependent on a larger city.
It seems to me like the term suburb could be applied to a wide variety of communities, hence the subjectivity.
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