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Old 06-30-2011, 04:08 PM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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A park is the BEST place for an impromptu football or soccer game.....IDK how some of you guys grew up, but WE played ball at the park, where we could find 15-20 guys. I don't get the notion of having a baseball diamond in your own backyard -- I really don't. For SUSTAINABLE city living, this is how it's done. Atlanta is not sustainable in this regard.
I'm talking about knowing dinner's going to be ready in an hour or so and getting together a few guys with a Nerf(tm) football or whatever, and using the clothes lines on one end and the garden on the other as end zones. Playing a little 3-on-3 or whatever.

Can't do that if the yard is a postage stamp.
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Old 06-30-2011, 07:49 PM
 
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I don't think one is better or the other, just different; the kids around here (in the city) play on the front yards. Lots of room to spread out that way, as on this block, anyway, there aren't any fences in the front. When I was growing up (in Uptown) kids played sports in the alley, or modified it to a smaller game in a backyard, or just walked to the park (not a big deal, since it takes just a couple of minutes to walk the few blocks to get to a park). It wasn't a big deal. The lots might be smaller, but more people also live within shorter distances of parks. And the lots in Minneapolis, anyway, are still big enough that you have space to move.
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Old 06-30-2011, 08:41 PM
 
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Compared to other US metros, Mpls/St Paul metro is sprawled. Compared to other cities, Mpls & St Paul are not so sprawled.
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Old 06-30-2011, 11:14 PM
 
Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota
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I think the actual Twin Cities themselves are very dense compared to most other major cities, but the suburbs are sprawled quite a bit. There are a lot of parks, and greenways scattered in between though so I don't think of it as "bad sprawl". Looking at a map of Minneapolis, it's actually fairly small in area.
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