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This thread is pretty funny since most people who post on this forum probably live in auto-oriented, suburban style housing. I bet most posters on this forum rely on their car to go grocery shopping, to commute to work, or even just to go out to meet with friends.
So I wouldn't really rely on anyone who criticizes urban places, such as SF or NYC, unless they have actually lived there, especially from some suburban outsider. Now that I'm living a car-free lifestyle in an urban neighborhood, I don't think I'll ever go back to the suburbs again. I'd drop dead with boredom.
The snobbery is strong with this one. If I have to spend most my life in a city core, I'd drop dead from lack of space and foliage.
The snobbery is strong with this one. If I have to spend most my life in a city core, I'd drop dead from lack of space and foliage.
NYC has a much higher proportion of open space/parkland than most U.S. cities.
And you would really "drop dead" from not enough foilage? Very odd. You should probably live in Northern Maine, or some place that is just nothing but woods. Most suburban areas aren't very good with tree cover.
I would vote for Charlottesville VA. Gets a lot of hype but has traffic issues, overpriced housing, crime, lot of yuppie/hippie types downtown. I wouldn't say it is a bad place to live overall but not the utopia it gets billed as.
Charlottesville is more of a historical alternative to NoVa, but realistically, is moving in the same direction as Northern Virginia. It is a small microcosm of NoVa IMHO. If you want NoVa on the cheap, and Harrisonburg is also attempting to move in that direction as well (but is not as far along the pike as Charlottesville), it is an interesting alternative.
The reality is that the entire state is moving in that direction and people will continue to find cheaper places in Virginia to get their quality of life right, but in general, Virginia is trending in a more expensive, yuppie/hippie/hipster direction away from it's roots, attracting everyone from everywhere. Irony of it is that one city is cheap today but will be just as expensive tomorrow, and it is all relative to what one earns anyway. One needs six figures to really experience what this state has to offer, to be able to afford everything and live the life everyone attains to.
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