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> Museums, zoos, aquariums I don't know about you, but those are things I'd go to at most once a year so taking the train/driving downtown for those rare event
by mrep 7y ago
> Museums, zoos, aquariums
I don't know about you, but those are things I'd go to at most once a year so taking the train/driving downtown for those rare events wasn't a big deal for me growing up.
> free events for kids, concerts just for babies,
more details?
> parks
My friends and I used to play basketball, american football, and ultimate frisbee all the time growing up. Now I live downtown and the parks I walk past never have enough free space to play those kind of sports. Not to mention the walking parks and playgrounds in the suburbs are usually way bigger and less crowded.
> swimming pools
Suburbs have these too and one of my friends growing up even had their own backyard pool where we would play sharks and minnows, use the pool basketball hoop to play 21, or use the diving board. Playing the former 2 are much harder in a packed city pool then a suburban pool due to crowds, let alone a private backyard one.
> little league, soccer league, skate parks,
Had all these in the suburbs when i grew up and again, those require a lot of space which is in short supply in the city so there's almost always more available options to do these in the suburbs.
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- flexie 7y agohttps://www.statista.com/statistics/189841/number-of-ball-diamonds-per-10-000-residents-by-city-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/189841/number-of-ball-di... I’d bet that most towns and suburbs with 10,000 inhabitants have 2-4 of those, or more :-)
- asveikau 7y ago> driving downtown This is your problem. In a city you don't need to put yourself and your family in a deadly metallic stress machine to get places. And as a result you will feel happier and more connected. Even in a city I am sometimes very shocked at what we put ourselves through to use a car. People constantly honking and flicking each other off with various insults and me on the sidewalk wishing they'd all calm down. (And when I used to drive too much, I was angry like them, and weighed substantially more.)
- pbourke 7y ago> deadly metallic stress machine A packed 4-5-6 line on a sweltering summer late afternoon can be a bit of a metallic stress machine. Not deadly, at least.
- selectodude 7y agoI think that’s a particular New York City issue.
- taysic 7y agoI think it applies well to a number of affluent urban areas in the US.
- Fomite 7y agoWhen I lived in a city I drove so little I frequently forgot where I parked my car.
- ssharp 7y agoYou know it's okay that other people don't want the same thing as you, right? It's difficult to go anywhere without putting yourself in a "deadly metallic stress machine", whether it be a car, plane, train, boat, etc. I suppose if you have that much fear of transportation, living somewhere with ample options within walking distance is best.
- asveikau 7y agoSo other than call me afraid or claim I want to monopolize opinions in the universe, have you addressed the point that a good train system is much less deadly and much less stressful than single occupant vehicles?
- raiflip 7y agoIt's always weird how people in the suburbs complain everywhere about how crappy cities are and yet if you turn around and say you like them they get all defensive...
- jonathankoren 7y ago> I don't know about you, but those are things I'd go to at most once a year so taking the train/driving downtown for those rare events wasn't a big deal for me growing up. Do you have children? I ask, because the frequency of attending these and all the other public institutions skyrockets when you have kids. Before I had kids, it had been literally decades since I stepped foot into a public library. After we had kids, we go all the time. Same with museums, parks, pools, everything.
- ido 7y agoi live in berlin and visit a zoo of some kind (there are many) with my kids almost every week (some weeks multiple times).