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True... now which one will I choose...one with shops close by like I have here in Glasgow.. I have a big grocers, takeaway. Post Office,Mens barber, Dentist. Pubs,big library and more and all short walking distance from my door..a constant bus service, not many places like that..
True... now which one will I choose...one with shops close by like I have here in Glasgow.. I have a big grocers, takeaway. Post Office,Mens barber, Dentist. Pubs,big library and more and all short walking distance from my door..a constant bus service, not many places like that..
Nope, you'd have to drive here - but driving is easy and gas is cheap! And you'd have at least a one car garage.
I could actually walk to the post office, grocery store, hair stylist, several local restaurants, doctor's office, gym, drug store, farmers market, library, etc because they are all within a mile or so from my house but that's just not the norm here. In my area we have the neighborhoods and then you drive OUT of the neighborhood and there's the town. We don't do much mixing of businesses and residential homes except for in larger cities. We have zones - residential, mixed, commercial, etc. and if you live in a residential zone, business storefronts are not permitted in those zones. I am guessing that there are zoning laws in the UK as well?
True... now which one will I choose...one with shops close by like I have here in Glasgow.. I have a big grocers, takeaway. Post Office,Mens barber, Dentist. Pubs,big library and more and all short walking distance from my door..a constant bus service, not many places like that..
Right now I live in a small town in Arizona. The nearest shop is 2 miles away, the nearest supermarket is 4 miles away. It isn't suburbia but you still have to drive and public transport is non existent. My big concern is what happens when I decide that I am too old to drive safely anymore.
Where I lived in Glasgow and where my mother lived, there were 4 supermarkets (Waitrose, Tesco, M&S, Iceland) within 300 yards plus a bunch of other shops, restaurants and bars. And public transport, the bus and the subway, was just as close. My mother was able to live autonomously until she was 86 despite having chosen to stop driving in her early 70s.
That decision point is probably going to come in 10-15 years or so. And it will probably entail a move to somewhere that it a lot more practical. Suburbs are great for bringing up families and they can provide a very nice quality of life. But over reliance on cars is a big drawback in my opinion.
In my city, if you live in the city limits you will basically have bus service and the closer you live to "downtown" the more bus stations there are. Also, most duplex and apartment complexes have a bus stop there as well.
I don't think oversized houses and car dependence are anything to brag about. If anything it shows the excesses of American consumerism. I can't point a finger though, Canada is guilty of this as well. Whether it's acknowledged or not, a car is a luxury many people can't afford, as is giving every child a bedroom of their own.
I still want the houses you seem to have back in the forties with a porch going all the way round.. and a picket fence.. or was that just in Doris Day movies.. when she was on the double swing with Gordon.
We do have those. They are my favorite style of house.
Here's an old one--the kind you would usually see around here. Usually there's more land because a lot of them were farmhouses. They don't come with picket fences as they are late Victorian style and picket fences must not have been"in" during that era.
Tenement style flats in Glasgow where I live with shops underneath... right in the heart of the city.. not everyones taste.. I live in a small house with a garden off the Main st but still very close to all the shops
Tenement style flats in Glasgow where I live with shops underneath... right in the heart of the city.. not everyones taste.. I live in a small house with a garden off the Main st but still very close to all the shops
Do you have any towns around Glasgow where newer housing is being built to cater to commuters?
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