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You've described Brooklyn and NYC at large... if you're anti-car then consider the city. Boston is a good second choice. I've lived in both. NYC comes with the
by Zezima 4y ago
You've described Brooklyn and NYC at large... if you're anti-car then consider the city. Boston is a good second choice. I've lived in both.
NYC comes with the normal downsides of the biggest city in the US: expenses, limited space, crowding, and noise. But this is true of all large cities in the world: Paris, London, Tokyo, etc.
But it comes with the immense upsides of a functioning metropolitan transit system, which covers the majority of the living spaces, at an affordable price, and doesn't require Uber or car to go the "last mile".
Additionally there are countless flex offices, coworking spaces, etc. Everyone I've met in tech in the city has some sort of WFH/WFO at this point in the pandemic.
City life isn't for everyone but if you're looking for a good transit system in the US there are two or three (Chicago too)
Best of luck with your journey
- teawrecks 4y agoWhat if I can't fit in a shoebox and can't afford anything larger? What if I have a dog and want them to have a yard that doesn't require me to leash them every time they want to go outside? I don't mind sharing a yard with neighbors, heck I would even share a kitchen space if I knew it would be maintained well and available when I need it. But none of that is even an option. I don't buy the idea that only hyper-dense cities can be walkable. The fact that NYC, Boston, Chicago, etc. are the closest thing we have to anti-car living speaks directly to OP's point about the US not prioritizing building comfortable communities.
- _bohm 4y agoDC does a pretty good job of being a middle ground. Very walkable in most parts, a high number of single-family homes, lots of park space where you can take your dog off leash. Houses have gotten pretty expensive over the last 10 or so years though
- throwawaysleep 4y agoYou can't have walkable if each person has a lot of space.
- closeparen 4y agoElevators are fast.
- JCharante 4y agoNot everyone can have a yard if you build up
- etblg 4y agoLive in Queens or Jersey? Take the train in from outside the city? Not all of the city is Manhattan.
- _blz2 4y agoExcept in NYC/Brooklyn, the crime rate and filth are both high. Not to mention the rude behavior that takes over anyone who spent more than a year there. Something like Tokyo, Singapore in terms of lawfulness and politeness is whats desperately needed in the US. Any city in the US is far from that.
- jakevoytko 4y agoAs always, NYC is one of the safer US cities in the nation across basically any metric you can find, and sometimes one of the safest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... We leave our trash in the streets, and I'm an asshole. So I can concede those points! But most city dwellers in the US live somewhere less safe than NYC.
- dec0dedab0de 4y agoBut most city dwellers in the US live somewhere less safe than NYC. The link you provided says NYC is the 67th most dangerous by crime rate. That is for the city as a whole, not for any particular borough or neighborhood. It also doesn't take into account other non-crime related danger. It also lists over 20 million people living in cities with a lower crime rate, even though it doesn't include hundreds of other cities because it is a list of the top 100 cities by crime rate.
- JCharante 4y agoHaven’t 4 or 6 people literally died on the NYC subway in the last 6 weeks? NYC needs more law & order
- _blz2 4y agoIt has the highest police budget and the subway budget in the nation and still can't handle crime due to politics. Law, order and thousand other things have to improve there.
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- ozarker 4y agoAwesome username :D