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Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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Originally Posted by alex985
"Flyover country" is especially hilarious from someone who lives in ****ing Phoenix. Dallas is a much more interesting city than Phoenix.
A. You already said that once.
B. Not staying in Phoenix much longer
C. Dallas is not that great, I've been there. Was just there 4 weeks ago recently. Kind of depressing.
D. At least Phoenix isn't in Texas
E. You couldn't pay me to live in any city outside of California, Las Vegas, Phoenix, or New York City (the one and only place I would live that gets cold, because it is the greatest city in the world)
F. How many times do I have to say I am moving to California until you stop?
And finally, Phoenix is bigger than Dallas, as well as overall more dense, Dallas is VERY spread out, even compared to Phoenix
The Dallas-Fort worth area is ridiculously spread out. Given its size I would expect a population of like 15-20 million. Just look at this map https://c7.staticflickr.com/3/2404/2...f03d8781cc.jpg
It's depressing how much urban sprawl there is in Dallas. No one is *entitled* to having a ten bedroom house with a pool and a backyard the size of a football field. This isn't sustainable
The Dallas-Fort worth area is ridiculously spread out. Given its size I would expect a population of like 15-20 million. Just look at this map https://c7.staticflickr.com/3/2404/2...f03d8781cc.jpg
It's depressing how much urban sprawl there is in Dallas. No one is *entitled* to having a ten bedroom house with a pool and a backyard the size of a football field. This isn't sustainable
Sure people aren't entitled to it but having a large house and yard in a suburban area has a much better quality of life for most people than living in a tiny apartment where you have to drive to a park or spend an hour driving through traffic any time you want to go somewhere. There's a reason most middle class families move to the suburbs. They want a nicer life. People shouldn't be condemned to live in a dirty, overcrowded, small area they won't enjoy.
Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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Sure people aren't entitled to it but having a large house and yard in a suburban area has a much better quality of life for most people than living in a tiny apartment where you have to drive to a park or spend an hour driving through traffic any time you want to go somewhere. There's a reason most middle class families move to the suburbs. They want a nicer life. People shouldn't be condemned to live in a dirty, overcrowded, small area they won't enjoy.
You don't always have to drive with adequate public transportation
You don't always have to drive with adequate public transportation
Then you have to deal with relying on a schedule and having to get to the public transportation at a certain time which could be far away. Also, public transportation can't go everywhere in a city, which could lead to a lot of walking in dirty, crowded, unsafe streets. And don't forget public transportation has to stop to let people off, so with that, and getting to it and maybe getting to your destination from it, it still takes a lengthy period of time.
Some of the pics of suburbs I've taken here look a bit like some of the older inner city suburbs in places like Boston, Philadelphia or even Sydney.
Our suburbs are nothing like those you'd see in mainland Europe; they often have lots of low density sprawl into the countryside (though not as extreme as in the US or Aus), vs apartment blocks and fields.
Isn't Scandinivia and maybe Germany similar to the UK suburb-wise?
Then you have to deal with relying on a schedule and having to get to the public transportation at a certain time which could be far away. Also, public transportation can't go everywhere in a city, which could lead to a lot of walking in dirty, crowded, unsafe streets. And don't forget public transportation has to stop to let people off, so with that, and getting to it and maybe getting to your destination from it, it still takes a lengthy period of time.
well he did say adequate public transporation; decent public transportation is nearby and frequent.
If the public transportation isny derpy like in many places in the US, then there will be lots of buses and they will come on time. In Valparaiso you wait for buses 5 or 10 minutes at the most
Isn't Scandinivia and maybe Germany similar to the UK suburb-wise?
Scandinavia's suburbs are more low-density and sprawling than the UK's. German suburbs are similar.
Lille is probably the most British-like city that isn't British in Europe. Its suburbs look VERY similar to ours. Their new housing estates in particular look almost identical to what we have.
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