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In contrast, I’ve always considered Los Angeles to be a “45 Minute City”, but by car. Everything you need is a 45 minute drive from wherever you are now. The b
by jasonkester 7y ago
In contrast, I’ve always considered Los Angeles to be a “45 Minute City”, but by car. Everything you need is a 45 minute drive from wherever you are now.
The beach is 45 minutes away. It’s 45 minutes to work. Your friends are each about 45 minutes away, in different directions, and the downtown bar you meet at on Friday night is 45 minutes away. You can even get out into the mountains on angel crest highway in about 45 minutes.
But unless you want a CVS pharmacy or a Starbucks, nothing is close by. Ever.
- keiferski 7y agoAnd then there’s NYC - The $20 City. Any time you step outside of your apartment, you’ll inevitably spend $20 on something.
- Toenex 7y agoAnd Manchester (UK) the 10mm city. Every time you step outside you will absorb at least 10mm of water.
- Entalpi 7y agoStockholm is the ”next island” city. You live on one island and everything else is one another island.
- lotsofpulp 7y ago$20 per hour at least.
- currymj 7y agoit feels like many places have a property like this. i think it must be some combination of the way things get built around roads + transit development, and induced demand.
- gfxgirl 7y agoWhen i lived there it was 20 minutes everywhere. Now between 3pm and 7pm it can easily be 2-3hrs. A few years ago visiting I made the mistake of trying to from Santa Monica at 4:30 pm to Alhambra. Took 3 hours. The ride back was 30 mins My mom who still lives there said she was on the freeway for 5 hours (2in, 3out) from Temecula to Pasadena and back. With no traffic it would have been 1hr each way.