Importance of neighboring cities when considering a move (living in, airport)
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How important is that for you. When you look at the Northeast corridor, you have a bunch of major cities in there where you could take day trips to world class cities. Baltimore and Washington are pretty much the same metro. Philadelphia has been called the 6th borough of NYC that's how close it is.
In some other parts of the country, certain metros are somewhat isolated, not from nature spots but from other cities. I think Denver comes to mind, Boise, El Paso. Great cities but if you wanted to trek to another big one, it might be a hell of a drive or you might as well hop on a plane.
Is this something you considered when choosing where to live? Living in both circumstances I can tell you I think it does matter.
Very important, but for many it probably doesn’t matter? Most people don’t leave their routine (or comfort bubble) until they vacation, and/or go visit family 1-2x a year.
Depends.
If we're just talking about larger metros of 2 million plus, then no, it doesn't matter at all. What matters there is whether or not the city itself offers what larger places should offer. If so, then I couldn't care less about travelling an hour just to see and do more city stuff. It has nothing to do with comfort or routines. I've traveled and lived all over the place.
Places like Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Kansas City are plenty big to fulfill whatever city needs I would have and they're all pretty good at playing the role of Big City. Each one also has its own unique set of offerings for day trips.
El Paso probably not so much. Salt Lake City would be fine because well, it's Utah. Just go play around in the desert or mountains. Plenty to see and do there.
The northeast corridor would drive me nuts. I need wide-open countryside.
Even if I did live there, I highly doubt I'd be going from Philly to Baltimore just to see what was there. Probably not even NYC very often.
Southern California might be little more tolerable because it gets pretty sparse inland. Unfortunately, it also gets blazing hot pretty quick away from the ocean.
Right now, I'm a day trip's drive to Chicago but we literally never go there and don't have any desire to. We did go once or twice a few years back when we lived a little bit closer.
I mostly just like to experience the place I'm living in.
Depends.
If we're just talking about larger metros of 2 million plus, then no, it doesn't matter at all. What matters there is whether or not the city itself offers what larger places should offer. If so, then I couldn't care less about travelling an hour just to see and do more city stuff. It has nothing to do with comfort or routines. I've traveled and lived all over the place.
Places like Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Kansas City are plenty big to fulfill whatever city needs I would have and they're all pretty good at playing the role of Big City. Each one also has its own unique set of offerings for day trips.
El Paso probably not so much. Salt Lake City would be fine because well, it's Utah. Just go play around in the desert or mountains. Plenty to see and do there.
The northeast corridor would drive me nuts. I need wide-open countryside.
Even if I did live there, I highly doubt I'd be going from Philly to Baltimore just to see what was there. Probably not even NYC very often.
Southern California might be little more tolerable because it gets pretty sparse inland. Unfortunately, it also gets blazing hot pretty quick away from the ocean.
Right now, I'm a day trip's drive to Chicago but we literally never go there and don't have any desire to. We did go once or twice a few years back when we lived a little bit closer.
I mostly just like to experience the place I'm living in.
You can still get to the countryside in under an hour-1 and half hours depending on where you want to go.
I couldn't care less about having a smorgasbord of cities nearby. Denver has all the amenities I need plus the outdoor recreation I crave. We've got an airport that can get me anywhere else in the lower 48, should I absolutely need to go there, typically in 4 hours or less.
Personally I think most people like places with a couple of interesting locations within an hours drive, outside of that, most people don’t really care.
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