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The two big things that keep me from moving out to the country are availability of healthcare services and access to major airports. West Lafayette would be ou

• bilbo0s 5y ago
  Presumably that means Evanston would be acceptable for you? My point is that as in everything, there will be winners and losers. I don't think people are implying that all college towns will do as well as, say, Austin, Boston, or Berkeley. Only that places like Ann Arbor, Eugene, Pittsburgh, and Madison probably have, at the least, an opportunity to take advantage of an obvious trend.
  • duped 5y ago
    I've lived and worked near Evanston and Berkeley actually. If you're within spitting distance there are better places to live, to be honest. My interpretation of this post was that it was trying to draw people away from major urban areas. Some of those examples you give are either in or on the edges of major cities.
• dehrmann 5y ago
  2.5 hours to a major airport and 1 hour to a medium-sized airport really isn't that bad. If you live in a large metro, it probably takes 40 minutes to get to the airport because of traffic or slow transit.
  • duped 5y ago
    2.5 hours to an airport to fly direct or 1 hour to a flight with a connection + layover is pretty terrible if you fly regularly. If you live in the major metro area you can usually find somewhere to live close to the airport.