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It’s a good list. I would probably add Bethesda/Chevy Chase and Clayton, MO (very underrated but very cool urban inner ring St. Louis suburb).
University City is an inner suburb of St. Louis that should be considered as well. It was planned as a model city and dates to about 1905 and located just west of the Forest Park site of the World’s Fair.
University City is an inner suburb of St. Louis that should be considered as well. It was planned as a model city and dates to about 1905 and located just west of the Forest Park site of the World’s Fair.
I like University City and thought it was quaint. It missed the 50K population marker the video was using, but it did once have a 50K population.
As a former New Brunswick resident, New Brunswick is absolutely horrible. I love Jersey to death but New Brunswick was making me want to leave fast.
Overpriced and some parts are full of crime yes, but horrible? IDK about that and I also used to live in NB. Crime has gone down significantly also since the 90s.
Overpriced and some parts are full of crime yes, but horrible? IDK about that and I also used to live in NB. Crime has gone down significantly also since the 90s.
I just did not like it.. especially to everywhere else NJ offers. Hard pass.
Annapolis is technically a suburb of Baltimore/DC. But it's a lot different in form/function than lets say Bethesda or Towson, MD which are more edge/satellite cities.
Annapolis is technically a suburb of Baltimore/DC. But it's a lot different in form/function than lets say Bethesda or Towson, MD which are more edge/satellite cities.
Annapolis is definitely weird case b/c of the rural separation (even though it's only like 3-4 miles) between Annapolis to points west/NW via US-50 and I-97. Route 2 (Ritchie Highway) is 15 miles of strip malls from Glen Burnie all the way down to Arnold, though.
Making things more weird is that Annapolis definitely has its own "suburb" like Arnold/Cape St. Claire to the north, Riva/Edgewater across South River, and of course Parole which is the most suburbia of all with the mall surrounded by big box stores and strip malls with large parking lots. The historic part and Eastport are both quite urban, though...
Making things even more confusing is that Annapolis is well within Baltimore urban area, unlike other outer satellite towns like Frederick MD or Fredericksburg VA.
P.S. I live near Crofton...no matter whether I drive MD-450 or US-50 or I-97 to Annapolis I have to pass through that area which are definitely rural in characteristic.
Annapolis is technically a suburb of Baltimore/DC. But it's a lot different in form/function than lets say Bethesda or Towson, MD which are more edge/satellite cities.
As its state's capital (and home to the oldest state capitol building still in use in the country), Annapolis has always had a reason for being independent of the two larger cities roughly equidistant from it (or close enough, though Annapolis' county, Anne Arundel, is in the Baltimore MSA).
Thus it functions as neither true suburb nor edge city. Instead, it actually is a "satellite city" — an already existing urban center that got overrun by the suburban expansion of a nearby larger city. Satellite cities often have suburbs of their own as well.
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