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The suburbs my family moved to is developing a downtown corridor. It's well known for its public schools and expansive homes, but now it's in a bit of a crisis.
by yardie 10y ago
The suburbs my family moved to is developing a downtown corridor. It's well known for its public schools and expansive homes, but now it's in a bit of a crisis. It now has to compete against the redeveloped downtown of the closest city. The kids are grown up and choosing to move to big cities. The empty nesters are downsizing their under-utilised homes. New families moving into the area are choosing smaller, newer homes.
The city planners are in 2 parties: those that want to keep the bedroom community the way it is, and those that want to turn it into a walkable city. The first is caught in the past and sees the schools as the major draw. And kind of ignores DINKs as a whole. The latter sees a future where young adults prefer to move to cities, and don't come back.
- tssva 10y agoThe area I'm in saw a big movement of young people into the downtown area. For the last decade the paper would have the occasional story about how the suburbs are done and millennials were moving to the city and were going to stay. Companies began moving to the city or close to public transport to be convenient to reach from the city, so they could attract employees. But guess what has happened in the last 3 years. Growth in the city has slowed and growth in suburbs has grown again. The first wave of the influx to the city have begun having kids and moving back to suburbs. So maybe the first group of planners isn't so wrong.