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View Poll Results: Urban or Suburban??
Urban 130 65.66%
Suburban 68 34.34%
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Old 08-26-2009, 10:27 AM
 
Location: Back in the gym...Yo Adrian!
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I'll take city living any day. Living in the suburbs is like living in a cemetery, only instead of rows of granite headstones that all look alike, it's rows or town houses or cookie cutter homes. The only signs of life are when someone charges up the lawnmower/leaf blower/snow blower, or the barking dogs.
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Old 08-26-2009, 11:21 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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After yesterday--definitely Urban.

I live in Oakland but my sister, her husband and 4 kids live in Moraga-a really rich suburb on the other side of the hill. Anyway she and her husband are in North Carolina attending to his ailing mother while I am watching their kids--which means I take her son(16) to football practice yesterday. Anyway, I sat in the bleachers where some of the parents were and seemed are sooooo shallow, materialistic and vain. All they talk about is tanning beds, expensive cars and jewelry, whose boinking who, plastic surgery and their home renovation nightmares.

No thanks.
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Old 08-26-2009, 11:36 AM
 
Location: Concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
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I'll take city living any day. Living in the suburbs is like living in a cemetery, only instead of rows of granite headstones that all look alike, it's rows or town houses or cookie cutter homes. The only signs of life are when someone charges up the lawnmower/leaf blower/snow blower, or the barking dogs.

That's far from the truth. I have tons of people walking around in the neighborhood. There are 2 playgrounds within 2 blocks of me, and any time of the day you can find at least 10 kids playing on them. I have as many people walking on the sidewalk in front of my house as I did when I lived in the city.
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Old 08-26-2009, 11:52 AM
 
Location: Virginia Beach/Norfolk.
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N.Y.C. suburbs are quite different then other suburbs in the us.. becasue ny is such a large city, the big city vibe can still be felt in the burbs
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Old 08-26-2009, 11:54 AM
 
Location: Concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
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^^Right, which is my point to this person that not all suburbs are the same.
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Old 08-26-2009, 11:57 AM
 
Location: Rochester, NY
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I'll take city living any day. Living in the suburbs is like living in a cemetery, only instead of rows of granite headstones that all look alike, it's rows or town houses or cookie cutter homes. The only signs of life are when someone charges up the lawnmower/leaf blower/snow blower, or the barking dogs.
Hmm. I live in the suburbs. The houses next to me look nothing alike, nor do any on our street. Weird.
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Old 08-26-2009, 12:01 PM
 
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Hmm. I live in the suburbs. The houses next to me look nothing alike, nor do any on our street. Weird.

I know where you live and who you are and its quite bland.
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Old 08-26-2009, 12:04 PM
 
Location: Sierra Vista, AZ
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Suburban entails getting into the car and driving every time you need a quart of milk or candy bar.
That is the downfall of America.
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Old 08-26-2009, 12:16 PM
 
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Suburban entails getting into the car and driving every time you need a quart of milk or candy bar.
That is the downfall of America.

No Doubt
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Old 08-26-2009, 01:17 PM
 
Location: Back in the gym...Yo Adrian!
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That's far from the truth. I have tons of people walking around in the neighborhood. There are 2 playgrounds within 2 blocks of me, and any time of the day you can find at least 10 kids playing on them. I have as many people walking on the sidewalk in front of my house as I did when I lived in the city.
No it's not far from the truth, not in the suburbs I've lived in, especially the newer ones. Some of the older suburbs have more variety and a little more activity, but for the most part, you need to drive everywhere to get anywhere. I prefer the convenience of the city myself.
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