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Bay Area towns aren't exurban periphery and aren't low on commercial and industrial jobs. Atherton is obviously buoyed solely by the residents' wealth, but the
by niftich 10y ago
Bay Area towns aren't exurban periphery and aren't low on commercial and industrial jobs. Atherton is obviously buoyed solely by the residents' wealth, but the rest of them are mixed-use areas. Furthermore, the Bay Area concentrates more wealth than your average US metropolitan area.
The evolution I laid out can be most readily observed in places where urban areas are not hemmed-in geographically, and easy access to cheaper undeveloped land exists, so new exurban nodes can be readily created. Right now, Northern Virginia (DC suburbs), Atlanta, Raleigh, Dallas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, and Minneapolis are experiencing this in their urban areas. California yet again a special case because exurban areas are usually much, much further away than elsewhere (Santa Clarita, Temecula, Palmdale -> LA; Santa Rosa, Fairfield, Tracy -> SF/SJ).
- ryandrake 10y agoThen, yea, your examples are outside of those two cycles--to be fair I didn't say the ones I listed were the only two possible chains. When I think of "good schools" though, I don't think of "temporary wealth" exurbs where accountants are buying McMansions. I'm thinking of schools that feed into the Ivy League and fiercely compete with elite private schools that also feed the Ivies.