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Would you please share which city is this, that has everything within 10 minute walk in its suburbs? I'm a European who's lived in an "American downtown" becau

Would you please share which city is this, that has everything within 10 minute walk in its suburbs? I'm a European who's lived in an "American downtown" because I was told the suburbs are horrible, but what you're describing sounds great.

xw3098 3y ago
Price is relative. That could be Los Altos, California. Which is very nice, walkable with garages, great parks and outdoors, but not what most people would call affordable. :)
- trimethylpurine 3y ago
  I would argue that it's objectively cheaper to live in the suburbs. And I can assert with confidence that $100/mo in HOA fees provides walkable parks, trails, pools, gyms, tennis courts, basketball courts, etc. I vote on the financial management of all these things so I can be sure they are provided by that amount of money, objectively. Major builders do suburbs like this one across the country. And they make a killing managing them too. Where are you? SF? SD? NY? Miami? You're paying a premium for the right to brag about it. Not for the amenities.
acheron 3y ago
> because I was told the suburbs are horrible Probably shouldn’t be taking advice from Reddit.
carom 3y ago
Columbia, MD was one of the earlier planned suburbs. Each neighborhood has a grocery store. Worth looking at.
trimethylpurine 3y ago
I won't. But I'm basically describing the entire USA except the coasts, and a few major cities in between. For perspective, houses in SF sell for 10x the value per square foot compared with my neighborhood. And I'm not remotely in the cheapest place in the country. America is big. Look around. There is a LOT of space in the middle.
- kdwikzncba 3y ago
  Right, I'm calling bullshit. Suburbs in America don't have anything 10 minutes walk away. You're just confused what a suburb is. I'm honestly concerned that people like you are allowed to vote.
  - trimethylpurine 3y ago
    The comment got a lot of upvotes, so clearly many people are living in suburbs like mine. If it's unbelievable for you, you've failed yourself. Sorry to hear that. I'm concerned that people like you are allowed to perpetuate price gouging on real estate because of your incompetence. Cheers.
    - tjrgergw 3y ago
      [flagged]
    - dang 3y ago
      Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you broke the site guidelines elsewhere in thread as well - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38003753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38003753. Please don't do that.
      - trimethylpurine 3y ago
        Thanks for the calm recourse. Noted. Appreciated.
        kdwikzncba 3y ago
        Meek.
  - dang 3y ago
    Crossing into personal attack will get you banned here. Please don't post like this to HN, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

xw3098 3y ago

Price is relative. That could be Los Altos, California. Which is very nice, walkable with garages, great parks and outdoors, but not what most people would call affordable. :)

trimethylpurine 3y ago
I would argue that it's objectively cheaper to live in the suburbs. And I can assert with confidence that $100/mo in HOA fees provides walkable parks, trails, pools, gyms, tennis courts, basketball courts, etc. I vote on the financial management of all these things so I can be sure they are provided by that amount of money, objectively. Major builders do suburbs like this one across the country. And they make a killing managing them too. Where are you? SF? SD? NY? Miami? You're paying a premium for the right to brag about it. Not for the amenities.

acheron 3y ago

> because I was told the suburbs are horrible Probably shouldn’t be taking advice from Reddit.

carom 3y ago

Columbia, MD was one of the earlier planned suburbs. Each neighborhood has a grocery store. Worth looking at.

trimethylpurine 3y ago

I won't. But I'm basically describing the entire USA except the coasts, and a few major cities in between. For perspective, houses in SF sell for 10x the value per square foot compared with my neighborhood. And I'm not remotely in the cheapest place in the country. America is big. Look around. There is a LOT of space in the middle.

kdwikzncba 3y ago
Right, I'm calling bullshit. Suburbs in America don't have anything 10 minutes walk away. You're just confused what a suburb is. I'm honestly concerned that people like you are allowed to vote.
- trimethylpurine 3y ago
  The comment got a lot of upvotes, so clearly many people are living in suburbs like mine. If it's unbelievable for you, you've failed yourself. Sorry to hear that. I'm concerned that people like you are allowed to perpetuate price gouging on real estate because of your incompetence. Cheers.
  - tjrgergw 3y ago
    [flagged]
  - dang 3y ago
    Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you broke the site guidelines elsewhere in thread as well - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38003753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38003753. Please don't do that.
    - trimethylpurine 3y ago
      Thanks for the calm recourse. Noted. Appreciated.
      - kdwikzncba 3y ago
        Meek.
- dang 3y ago
  Crossing into personal attack will get you banned here. Please don't post like this to HN, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html