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But it sounds good though (to you). Mostly because your comment is a manifestation of your wishes.
Head in the sand?
Not dying? How do you describe it? Let me guess - it's just a temporary lull in people's desire to move to, stay in or reproduce in Detroit, but it'll come roaring back next year, right?
On the days that I go into the office, instead of working from home.
I probably have a smaller "carbon footprint" than most of the people here who claim to be champions for the environment. I like a clean environment, too. I just don't feel the need to crow about it and tell everyone else they're screwing up, just to make myself feel good and fool myself into believing that I'm "doing something about it."
I live in the burbs. i am 20 miles from Downtown Dallas.
i commute about 30 feet from my bedroom to my office.... if you count making coffee, add another 60 feet (round trip to the kitchen to make coffee)....
grocery store, less than a quarter mile. kids schools less than 1 mile. mall, costco, 50 resturants, kids sports all less than 3 miles.
80238. Average house is probably around a half mil. Condos and some townhouses can be found in the low $300s. Not that different from Denver's further out 'burbs.
LOL. I'm there fairly often. We have an office over off of E 48th not far from the UPS shipping center. I usually stay off of Quebec St. at the Double Tree.
I'm sorry, but I kind of consider that the suburbs of Denver; the inner suburbs, but definitely not the city.
When I stay there, I usually drive into the "city" around the general area of Larimer St. for dinner or to kill time. The worst part is going back past the Purina plant back to the hotel and having that smell linger in the car.
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No, those aren't stereotypes. Those are relatively accurate depictions of the kinds of things you'd find in either the city or country.
I suppose you could call them stereotypes, but they'd be based in fact and therefore there's nothing negative about them.
Personally, I think you misread his post, or the context of it in the larger discussion, but I'm not here to make assumptions - I respond to what people write, not what I think they meant to write.
LOL. I'm there fairly often. We have an office over off of E 48th not far from the UPS shipping center. I usually stay off of Quebec St. at the Double Tree.
I'm sorry, but I kind of consider that the suburbs of Denver; the inner suburbs, but definitely not the city.
When I stay there, I usually drive into the "city" around the general area of Larimer St. for dinner or to kill time. The worst part is going back past the Purina plant back to the hotel and having that smell linger in the car.
It's suburban... but denser, and near what we like in the city.
My dog licks her chops when we drive by there lol!
I live in the burbs. i am 20 miles from Downtown Dallas.
We're soon to be neighbors. We're moving at the end of August. Probably landing somewhere around Garland or Mesquite, or possibly Forney or thereabouts. When we're ready to buy, we'll be looking in or near Lindale/Quitman. Beautiful country out there.
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i commute about 30 feet from my bedroom to my office.... if you count making coffee, add another 60 feet (round trip to the kitchen to make coffee)....
We started working exclusively out of the house, but we outgrew the spare bedroom after a few years and needed a proper office. When it's slow, like today, and there's no meetings or other things we have to go in for, we can and do work from home. It's nice to be able to do it sometimes, but I actually prefer working at the office.
My dog licks her chops when we drive by there lol!
In your neighborhood, I've never once noticed that smell, but the plant isn't all that far. Any idea of that smell just dissipates real fast or do the winds just not blow in your direction?
for a guy from detroit who lives in AZ you sure know a lot about all the cities in Texas. LOL.
I'm not from Detroit. I'm from Phoenix.
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They'll look like how a very large portion of Las Vegas looks today.
Not sure what you're asking. Do you think houses disintegrate after 30 years or something?
If you want to see how a "master planned community" can grow long term, look at Irvine, CA.
Irvine itself is a large city in a county that's no longer just a collection of L.A. suburbs. Orange County is it's own metro area.
Not to mention sky high property values in a desirable part of the country not far from the beach.
You can't compare that to Atlanta or Houston suburbs.
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Head in the sand?
Not dying? How do you describe it? Let me guess - it's just a temporary lull in people's desire to move to, stay in or reproduce in Detroit, but it'll come roaring back next year, right?
Detroit is in far better shape than it was a decade ago, and they're finally out of bankruptcy. I doubt it if anyone thinks the city will be what it was 50 years ago anytime soon. But it isn't dying. That's just a fact.
You can post all the graphs about population loss that you want. So what.
Which demonstrates how little "public transportation" has to do with "sprawl". Face it, not everyone likes to live crammed in like a bunch of sardines in some concrete jungle. I'm no fan of suburbia, but it beats the h*ll out of some cramped high-rise apartment.
I would never give up my space and view for anything in downtown.
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