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Thought this could be a cool way for others to learn about the look and feel of different cities across the country in a fairly quick manner.
In this thread, post 3 different street views from Google Maps of a city that you either currently live in, have lived in previously, or are VERY familiar with. The 3 different street views should include:
A "nice" neighborhood in your city (doesn't have to be the wealthiest)
A "run-of-the-mill/average" neighborhood in your city (home values, family income, crime, etc)
A "rough" neighborhood in your city (one that nearly all residents would agree is less than desirable)
Street views should ideally depict residential neighborhoods.
Here's an example from my hometown: Cincinnati, OH.
Interesting selection. The street in the “nice” view is so narrow yet the houses are set back far from the street. This seems like something the New Urbanists have picked up, that typical residential streets will be much more attractive and feel more comfortable at this width than the usual much wider pavement. However, no sidewalks! The average is lower average I’d guess. The “rough” was obviously built for wealthy people and was once a much more fashionable address than anything in the “nice”. The whole point of zoning and restrictive covenants and HOAs and all the other planning tools in service of property values put in since the 1920s is to keep areas like this from losing their status. Doesn’t always work.
The average seems much nicer than the “nice” — well established with mature trees, nice houses in different styles, the brick pavement, appealing proportions in width and height of the street space.
To be fair, the average street is I linked is about average as far as housing prices in the city overall. It's a city that had a 1930 population of about 6,000, but now due to all the new developments (and becoming an Akron suburb) now has 23,000. So, as far as the older areas, that one is probably the nicest of the bigger streets ... though this one is my favorite pre-WWII street (though it's definitely not average even when compared with the new subdivisions)
Still, it's a nice town and made a nice compromise when looking for a place out in the "country" (wife) and wanting to be in a "city" (me) ... five or six mom and pops restaurants and a couple bars in our little downtown
And it shocks all our friends from Cleveland who come down for the first time because they all assume we live on a farm with acres of land in the middle of nowhere, lol.
Just crazy to me in Boston worse areas everything is redeveloped...
Meant to add something to your images in this post but didn't quite know how to add a regular photo. Now I may have succeeded. First, the street view...
The very nice selection is a surprise. Those houses are jammed onto tiny lots. What's the point of a very nice neighborhood built as densely as that if you're still in a suburban environment where you have to drive everywhere? Up north the very nice neighborhoods in suburban settings like that almost always have good sized yards. That kind of density is more like Park Slope in Brooklyn where you can walk to everything or to the subway station.
Here, for example, is a very nice neighborhood in Chestnut Hill, Newton, just outside Boston city limits. Lots are much bigger even though this was all laid out 100+ years ago when cars were few and most everyone in a suburb like this walked to the trolley car or to a railroad station.
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The very nice selection is a surprise. Those houses are jammed onto tiny lots. What's the point of a very nice neighborhood built as densely as that if you're still in a suburban environment where you have to drive everywhere? Up north the very nice neighborhoods in suburban settings like that almost always have good sized yards. That kind of density is more like Park Slope in Brooklyn where you can walk to everything or to the subway station.
This is so common in MD VA NC. And I’m assuming much of the sunbelt. Huge houses like riiiight next to each other. So weird
The very nice selection is a surprise. Those houses are jammed onto tiny lots. What's the point of a very nice neighborhood built as densely as that if you're still in a suburban environment where you have to drive everywhere? Up north the very nice neighborhoods in suburban settings like that almost always have good sized yards. That kind of density is more like Park Slope in Brooklyn where you can walk to everything or to the subway station.
That neighborhood Lord Helmit posted is newly built urban infill close to the center of the city.
Even closer to the middle of the city; walking distance to downtown; older mansions on larger lots can be found;
Thank you g500. Great choices. Pennsylvania cities rock.
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