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Old 11-13-2007, 08:36 PM
 
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I'm a transplant

I moved into the city

I decided to stay in the city when we got our home together

I love the city

I don't care about "stip" malls

 
Old 11-14-2007, 06:31 AM
 
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I'm a transplant

I moved into the city

I decided to stay in the city when we got our home together

I love the city

I don't care about "stip" malls
My point is that there is nothing wrong with wanting to live in the city center OR the suburbs. Different lives call for different things. The entire topic on this forum has been blown totally out of proportion!
 
Old 11-14-2007, 10:43 AM
 
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Hey, I am here to fire up the forum tonight, and for some reason I am in a bitter mood this evening.
You? Bitter? Just a tad.

By the way, I was raised in Cranberry Township and what's been done there is a CRIME.

But that doesn't mean I want to move to the city. I've done the city. I've done it for 24 years -- and now, considering I've done my time, I really tried to rehab a house in a downturned area that should be coming up and it hasn't, shouldn't I get a break?

Shouldn't I get to live where I want to live? A place where I can put in a big garden and grow my own tomatoes and maybe a few varieties of corn? A place where I can sit on my own deck in my back yard, and not listen to the rotten kids next door pound on each other and scream? Or listen to the guy behind me in the bad ranchero band practicing? A place where I can hang out my laundry?

And -- isn't this America? Oh, wait -- last time I checked, IT WAS.

Stagger, people have preferences. Not everyone WANTS to live in the city. That doesn't mean our cities aren't vibrant. Look at where I live, in Oakland, CA. Oakland is struggling, and has been struggling for years, and will continue to struggle for years to come.

But across the bay lies Golden San Francisco. Where, in the midst of the mortgage debacle and housing price meltdown (my neighborhood -- hit hard by foreclosures, and down in price by around 30%) San Francisco has seen nary a blip. Realtors are still seeing multiple bids and price escalations in good neighborhoods. (So when you hear that the Bay Area median price home is still rising -- THAT'S why)

But cross the Golden Gate and you get to MARIN... the ULTIMATE suburb. Their home prices and real estate stats are bullet proof. Their values are even HIGHER than SF's, and their gains are more amazing, even in these down years. (So Marin County and San Francisco County are skewing the median house price UP... )

So, even here, where we have a great vibrant city, with real walkable neighborhoods, with real stores in them -- where do you think people want to live?

Yeah -- the suburbs. Details magazine just said it on their cover -- the suburbs are cool, man
 
Old 11-14-2007, 12:56 PM
 
Location: Erie, PA
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My theory is too much left-wing indoctrination at whatever university Stagger attended. You must live in our wonderful "sustainable" socialist utopia...OR ELSE!
 
Old 11-14-2007, 05:19 PM
 
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My theory is too much left-wing indoctrination at whatever university Stagger attended. You must live in our wonderful "sustainable" socialist utopia...OR ELSE!
You are correct!
 
Old 11-14-2007, 05:21 PM
 
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you newphew and wife probably love stipmalls and treeless characterless suburbs. Denver does have too many transplants. It is 80% or more transplants from California or Texas trying to make a little LA. People in denver all seemed to like nothing but Highlands ranch and Southeast Aurora. I wouldn't expect somebody from there to like a city with real architecture, and neighborhoods.
actually, i don't like it here and hate stripmalls and treeless characterless suburbs. i also love real architecture, but haven't found all that much really. the majority of neighborhoods have brick houses that all look the same. wow.
 
Old 11-14-2007, 05:25 PM
 
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You again. NOt you! Now I got two people of negativity that make me want to slice my wrist. Oh, well. I guess I got two wrist.

I thought you moved to your endless grape country up there in North N.Y. Guess not. I guess you haven't been around many of the neighborhoods. Also, I feel bad for your architectural knowledge if that is all you see. Go to the carnegie library and pick up a book on architecture.

Learning is better then talking out of one's @#$
 
Old 11-14-2007, 05:28 PM
 
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You again. NOt you! Now I got two people of negativity that make me want to slice my wrist. Oh, well. I guess I got two wrist.

I thought you moved to your endless grape country up there in North N.Y. Guess not. I guess you haven't been around many of the neighborhoods. Also, I feel bad for your architectural knowledge if that is all you see. Go to the carnegie library and pick up a book on architecture.

Learning is better then talking out of one's @#$
Well, I was a one time architecture student, but oh well, i guess that meant nothing. As someone who does alot of land surveying, i have seen almost the entire city and its hinterland. there are some very nice buildings, but no more than any other older northeastern city, and NOTHING groundbreaking in my opinion. And by groundbreaking, i don't mean modern, when i think of architecture i am only thinking of it in the historical context.
 
Old 11-14-2007, 05:31 PM
 
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OOOOOOOOOOO. KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK. you don't see historic contex in Pittsburgh. WOW.

Now I see why you were just at "one time" a architectural student. LOL.
 
Old 11-14-2007, 05:36 PM
 
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OOOOOOOOOOO. KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK. you don't see historic contex in Pittsburgh. WOW.

Now I see why you were just at "one time" a architectural student. LOL.
yeah, i wanted to do more historical renovation than designing modern buildings. which means being an architectural student was worthless.

i think you might be thinking of 'architectural history' not 'architecture'

anyways, if you go to any older rust belt city, you will see just as much historical architecture, if not alot more. many neighborhoods in pittsburgh have nothing but identical houses. that isn't pleasing to this one time architecture student. sorry. maybe you like things bland?
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