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I don't think it's just limited to large metropolitan areas. I'm from a small metropolitan area (about 464,000) and it happens here as well. I rarely ventured out of my 2-4 mile radius or so. Occasionally if there was a store or a movie theater in another part of town that didn't exist in my radius, I'd go there, but that was uncommon.
When I moved to another part of town after moving back a couple of years ago, and meeting people from other parts of town, I've discovered restaurants and other places that I didn't even know existed. It's kind of sad, really, but it's hard to get out and about all of the time when you think driving ten minutes to the store is ridiculously long.
If you are talking about Lansing, I understand. When I was going to MSU, I felt like I was one of the handful of students that would venture to the Lansing Mall instead of the Meridian Mall in Okemos. Even within East Lansing, I one day didn't realize that there was a Meijer north of Downtown E.L. until a friend with a car drove there. There were quite a few apartments that way as well. occasionally I would go to the strip of shopping on Pennsylvania Ave. and would go into the city of Lansing for something. Nice area that reminds me of the area I live, but just a little bit smaller.
Washington D.C. Metro residents don't know much about their area.
Yeah, definitely. A lot of people I know give me a look like "you know, you're going to die," whenever I mention I'm going to take the Green Line somewhere.
How much of this can be blamed on the Local News? Families want to protect and shelter kids because they see the daily story of some car jacking, homicide or something else. A good majority of these crimes are related, but people don't care and will always have fear in them about a city until they become educated.
So many younger people are moving into cities these days because most likely they were sheltered from parents. Parents told them to stay away from the City or only stay around these areas. Once the child moves out on his own to college, they start venturing into the city, see a show, eat at a new restaurant and they say to themself "Hey, this place really isn't that bad, I wouldnt mind living here some day."
The next trend people need to set is how to keep the younger people stay in the cities and make the public schools better instead of just retreating back to the suburbs.
If you are talking about Lansing, I understand. When I was going to MSU, I felt like I was one of the handful of students that would venture to the Lansing Mall instead of the Meridian Mall in Okemos. Even within East Lansing, I one day didn't realize that there was a Meijer north of Downtown E.L. until a friend with a car drove there. There were quite a few apartments that way as well. occasionally I would go to the strip of shopping on Pennsylvania Ave. and would go into the city of Lansing for something. Nice area that reminds me of the area I live, but just a little bit smaller.
Yeah, I'm talking about Lansing. There might be some additional factors (like the presence of MSU) that keep things a little more separated than average. Mainly though I was just trying to say that if you have multiple shopping areas with similar stores, you're probably going only to the ones close to home and/or work.
I do think size has something to do with it. When I lived in State College, PA, it seemed like most people knew where things were all across town, at least in State College itself. Them knowing about surrounding communities, on the other hand, yeah...
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