Why do so much people hate on the Suburbs?? (definition, residential, Illinois)
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Oakland has the Carnegie Library, several coffee shops, a grocery store, a florist shop, lots of restaurants, an amazing park, a post office, and several banks. Unless you're living deep within the outer limits of South/North Oakland, almost all of these things should be within a mile walk or so.
That post (of mine) was deleted. Those things might all have been within a mile's walk of my apt., but not necessarily all that close to each other, e.g. the bank might be a mile one way, the post office a mile another way, etc.
That's right. I have my receipt in a safe deposit box.
When I lived in the city (Pittsburgh), that's what I had to do. When DH and I lived in Denver, ditto. When my daughter lived in a different neighborhood in Denver, ditto. Living in the city does not guarantee you live within a 10 min. walk of all these places. DD did live close to a lot of restaurants, but not much else.
You've made this claim in the past and that's ok.:-) I guess its different in Denver and Pittsburgh. Every major city I've lived in from DC to Seattle and everywhere in between and now here in Los Angeles has amenities and conveniences a short walk away.
You've made this claim in the past and that's ok.:-) I guess its different in Denver and Pittsburgh. Every major city I've lived in from DC to Seattle and everywhere in between and now here in Los Angeles has amenities and conveniences a short walk away.
That post (of mine) was deleted. Those things might all have been within a mile's walk of my apt., but not necessarily all that close to each other, e.g. the bank might be a mile one way, the post office a mile another way, etc.
Other than the post office, all those businesses are clustered together along Forbes/Fifth, along with another commercial stretch on Craig Street. The park and library are not far from either commercial sub-sector and there are bank branches throughout Oakland. Perhaps it was just your particular branch that was inconvenient to everything else.
It's not that, its the fact that you have to drive 10 minutes to Walmart, the bank, get on the interstate to a restaurant, kids need a car, can't walk to the corner store or to any friends outside of your subdivision. It's good when you're raising a family and don't mind driving 30mins-1hr to work. It's generally bad for kids unless you have the disposable income to buy them a car and pay there way. I grew up in the suburbs with a car I helped pay for and I spend less on gas living in the city than I did in the suburbs.
What makes you think that in every suburb, you have to drive 10 minutes to get anywhere? The suburbs are more than a bunch of subdivisions, just like the city is more than crowded apartment buildings. Broad generalizations will kill your argument.
What makes you think that in every suburb, you have to drive 10 minutes to get anywhere? The suburbs are more than a bunch of subdivisions, just like the city is more than crowded apartment buildings. Broad generalizations will kill your argument.
Ok I agree that's a generalization but if I wanted to drive anywhere it took 10 minutes or more. I don't know many people who have every daily amenity within a 10 minute drive in the suburbs.
Ok I agree that's a generalization but if I wanted to drive anywhere it took 10 minutes or more. I don't know many people who have every daily amenity within a 10 minute drive in the suburbs.
I do. I can get every amenity within a 10 minute walk and i live in the outter-ring suburbs of Baltimore.
I do. I can get every amenity within a 10 minute walk and i live in the outter-ring suburbs of Baltimore.
Hmm. I lived in the B/W region. Where do you live?
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