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Old 12-27-2008, 09:13 PM
 
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I'm looking to relocate to a new city. I'm currently living in Portland, Oregon and I ended up selling my car and use public transit. It's hard adjusting to but I got the hang of it and I'm saving a good 500 a month without car payments, insurance, gas and maintance.

The public transit here is GREAT if you are in city limits. I work in mechanical and electrical manufacturing so most of those types of firms are almost in the suburbs of a city.

What cities have great public transit systems? Besides New York, I used to live there, I don't like it.

I was looking into LA, but the transit only goes so far.

Thanks!
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Old 12-27-2008, 09:15 PM
 
Location: Concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
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Just read up on this thread-- http://www.city-data.com/forum/gener...portation.html
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Old 12-27-2008, 09:17 PM
 
Location: Houston
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are you willing to ride the bus or just rail? I think most major cities have extensive bus routes. Rail seems to be a northeast thing. the other cities are just now trying to catch up to what the northeast has.
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Old 12-27-2008, 09:22 PM
 
Location: Teaneck, NJ
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Do you have any criteria on the kind of climate you would like. Because i would suggest one of the twin cities or Chicago as a go.

I heard a lot of good things about those places and there public transportation.
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Old 12-27-2008, 09:24 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Washington D.C. has extensive rail.
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Old 12-27-2008, 09:26 PM
 
Location: roaming gnome
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nyc/chi/boston/dc/sf are comfortably livable without a car, and in several cases, preferable.
perhaps you could do philly too... i'm not sure.
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Old 12-27-2008, 09:54 PM
 
Location: Mission Viejo, CA
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I was looking into LA, but the transit only goes so far.
You need to basically memorize this map then and see if it will work for you. 10% of Angelenos take public transportation, so 90% of commuters are taking something else to work. It essentially only works for so many people and the car culture will probably get to you.
http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/ma...System_Map.pdf

Besides NYC (which you said you don't like), Washington D.C., San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia are the cities where a decent amount of the workers use P.T.
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