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I prefer urban to suburbia but Marin (no e) was THE nicest suburban area I’ve ever lived in on either coast.
Sausalito, Mill Valley, Corte Madera, Tiburon, Larkspur, Ross, San Anselmo, Fairfax, etc all good. Clay running trails around the bay, numerous public tennis courts, foothills and mountains, Stinson Beach, deer come up to you in the morning (at least where I lived), trees, and very close to SF with commute by ferry an option. Is/was home to influential musicians, artists, film legends, athletes and others from SF’s storied cultural past that are all part of “Americana”.
South Bay (San Mateo, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Los Altos, Saratoga, etc) no slouch either.
Not sure why SF suburbs were not listed as an option.
I’m still very jet-legged, and just had a dental surgery but yes it’s Marin with no e.
I have a newly resumed (after all, I used to walk in Manhattan for hours daily.) great appreciation for urbanization/walkability/public transportation after having lived in Europe in the past 3 months. I can see why many people love suburbs though so nice, well-thought out and smartly designed suburbs are the necessary evil.
Marin county physically is impeccable. Stinson Beach? A perfect Hitchcock movie setting. In fact in the movie Basic Instinct Sharon Stone’s beach house was located in Stinson Beach.
My sister lives in Saratoga, I can’t believe her little non-descriptive one level ranch house is estimated about $2.8 million now.
Agree there should be a SF suburbs in the poll.
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Marin County looks really pretty. Sausalito could almost pass for a Mediterranean coastal town.
Totally. Napoli perhaps? I always said minus the weather the SF/Bay area almost looks Mediterranean with the hilly little houses tucked in with the ocean. Lisbon and SF look surprisingly similar.
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I’m still very jet-legged, and just had a dental surgery but yes it’s Marin with no e.
I have a newly resumed (after all, I used to walk in Manhattan for hours daily.) great appreciationfor urbanization/walkability/public transportation after having lived in Europe in the past 3 months. I can see why many people love suburbs though so nice, well-thought out and smartly designed suburbs are the necessary evil.
Marin county physically is impeccable. Stinson Beach? A perfect Hitchcock movie setting. In fact in the movie Basic Instinct Sharon Stone’s beach house was located in Stinson Beach.
My sister lives in Saratoga, I can’t believe her little non-descriptive one level ranch house is estimated about $2.8 million now.
Agree there should be a SF suburbs in the poll.
Too many good memories (though many years ago)….ran into and met Joe DiMaggio at a Longs Drugs in Greenbrae (big thrill for me and he was extremely nice), had dinner directly next to Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead at Marin Joes, looked out my balcony to see Billy Jean King playing Rosie Casals tennis one morning, ran into Huey Lewis at the 2AM Club in Mill Valley, sat close to Larry (“JR Ewing) Hagman and his mom (Marin resident and Peter Pan star Mary Martin at Sam’s in Tiburon), is/was home to George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch, the late Robin Williams and Bill Graham, and the classic scene from Dirty Harry where, in Larkspur, Clint Eastwood jumps off the bridge on to the school bus hijacked by Scorpio before he shoots the “punk” during the “do you feel lucky” movie ending.
DFW suburbs are underrated and I've lived in DC, Houston, ATL and Philly and traveled to many metros. One unique thing about DFW satellite towns is many have lakes like Lewisville, Grapevine, Cedar Hill, Little Elm and Rockwall . Others have like Denton, McKinney, SouthLake and Waxahachie have great town squares.
Some others don't seem quite suburban because of the areas unique layout, i.e. Dallas and Fort Worth with suburbs in between rather than on the periphery.
1. Irving which has more Fortune 500 HQs than cities 5x as large.
2. Or Arlington, a city of 400K, that if in Florida would be the 2nd largest city there but here, its just a suburb. However, it hosts the Texas Rangers, the Dallas Cowboys, the original Six Flags Amusement Park, the UT-Arlington campus and a big GM auto plant.
As someone who was raised in Philly, great burbs but that's also because the city itself in many areas look like trash. between 1980 and 2010, the city lost 25% of its population.
As someone who was raised in Philly, great burbs but that's also because the city itself in many areas look like trash. between 1980 and 2010, the city lost 25% of its population.
Well yes, Philadelphia still has much work to do, but the suburbs of Philadelphia are some of the nations best.
Yep. I lived in Reston, Fairfax County, VA for a couple of years and absolutely hated it. Very sprawling and low-density and autocentric, yet Reston was somehow supposed to be one of the hip, urban(ish) suburbs of the DC Metro Area? I now pay FAR less to live in the heart of Pittsburgh, a walkable thriving major city, and I couldn't be happier.
Reston "hip"?
News to me.
What distinguished it — and Columbia, MD — from the rest of the suburbs in the DC/Baltimore constellation were that they were planned-from-the-ground-up "new towns" that were supposed to be self-contained in some way.
IDK if Reston had anything one might call a "town center" the way Columbia did. Did it?
And come to think of it, I'd be hard pressed to refer to anything in the DMV as "hip." Washington still being a company town of sorts, tech growth be damned, and given that those whose lives depend on that company tend to be rather self-important, hipness is sort of anathema to those people. H Street NE may come close now, however.
As someone who was raised in Philly, great burbs but that's also because the city itself in many areas look like trash. between 1980 and 2010, the city lost 25% of its population.
Philadelphia's population bottomed out in the 2000 census; it gained residents in the two that followed. Whether it holds onto those gains in this decade remains to be seen, but I take the estimates with a grain of salt.
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I now pay FAR less to live in the heart of Pittsburgh, a walkable thriving major city, and I couldn't be happier.
