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Old 08-08-2007, 12:51 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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I'm so glad I grew up in the big city. I simply love the conveniences of city living. Stores, coffee shops, markets, parks, post office, all within walking distance of my home. As a former real estate agent in this area, probably 98% of the suburbs I just would not live in. Most are not convenient to anything on foot. Couples I'd show homes to always discussed having to get a 2nd car or how would I get to work. Also suburban rush hour traffic is horrendous around here. I honestly don't know how people put up with this everyday. But that's ok. We have the right to live where we want.
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Old 08-08-2007, 01:18 PM
 
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There's nothing more lame than the American post-WWII suburb. They bring together all of the disadvantages of city living with all of the disadvantages of rural/small town living.

I've lived in all 3 settings. Give me the city any day--and stop trying to turn our cities into suburbs with your drive-in coffee shops, drug stores, banks, etc. and your vast dreary parking lots! Keep that crap in the burbs where it belongs (or doesn't)
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Old 08-08-2007, 01:20 PM
 
Location: the best coast
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The funniest part is suburbanites feel like they are getting a bang for their buck, with their cheaply built post ww2 tract homes and long commutes...
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Old 08-08-2007, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Blackwater Park
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Give me the city any day--and stop trying to turn our cities into suburbs with your drive-in coffee shops, drug stores, banks, etc. and your vast dreary parking lots! Keep that crap in the burbs where it belongs (or doesn't)
There is a good chance those are city businessmen who are doing that.
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Old 08-08-2007, 03:16 PM
 
Location: Blackwater Park
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The funniest part is suburbanites feel like they are getting a bang for their buck, with their cheaply built post ww2 tract homes and long commutes...
Newly constructed homes (3BR, 2.5 BA, 1500 sq. ft., 2 car garage, .5 acre,) in the suburbs of my town go for around $135-160). They can get to just about anything in 15-20 minutes.

An exisiting home in a decent part of the city that's 2-3BR, 1-2BA, 1100 sq.ft. no garage, .25-.3 acre goes for about the same or more.

I'll take the first option.
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Old 08-08-2007, 06:42 PM
 
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I think it's being oversimplified to say that all suburbs are tracts as well with ugly wall to wall parking lots, mismash fall-apart buildings and huge rusty signage... The airport I use when I fly my airplane is in the middle of one of those types of midcentury suburbs, and I woulnd't want to live in them either. I live in the city, but what of some of the newer, nicer suburbs? The suburb my parents live in is about 99% custom homes, with heavy no street parking ordinances and rear parking lots at the businesses... between those and the tree lined roads, the only cars you so see are the ones on the road. These may be less prevalent, but they do exist. These suburbs never are mentioned, however, and are a growing trend, even when the houses in them are tracts.
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Old 08-08-2007, 10:08 PM
 
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There is a good chance those are city businessmen who are doing that.
I seriously doubt it. Most of the developers around here live in the burbs. I do believe they think they are doing us a favor by making our city neighborhoods more like the suburbs. Suburbanites just don't get it.

Take a look at this: "The suburb my parents live in is about 99% custom homes, with heavy no street parking ordinances and rear parking lots at the businesses... between those and the tree lined roads, the only cars you so see are the ones on the road. These may be less prevalent, but they do exist."

Yuck, no thanks!
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Old 08-08-2007, 10:11 PM
 
Location: Bronx, NY
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Yeah I'd rather see cars parallel parked along the sidewalks. When you have this people generally feel safer about walking down the sidewalk because there is a barrier between themselves and the moving traffic in the road.
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Old 08-08-2007, 10:50 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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The funniest part is suburbanites feel like they are getting a bang for their buck, with their cheaply built post ww2 tract homes and long commutes...
I don't live in a ww2 tract house; I live 4 1/2 miles from my work; my DH lives 8 miles from his job, closer than when we lived in the city (Denver). I'd take a post ww2 tract home to a tenement any day.
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Old 08-08-2007, 10:56 PM
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I think most people would take anything other than a cardboard box over a tenement (my grandfather lived in one in nyc growing in the bronx during the depression). I've lived almost 1/2 my life in apartments, but none of them were tenements (okay, maybe there was that one when I was young and stupid and was less phased with things like ceilings caving in and rats), there is a difference ya know.
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