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Having grown up in an extremely walkable city (outside the US) with top notch public transportation, neighborhood markets, farmer's markets, entertainment optio
by glimshe 3y ago
Having grown up in an extremely walkable city (outside the US) with top notch public transportation, neighborhood markets, farmer's markets, entertainment options and cultural activities, I'm so thankful for being able to escape that anthill and live in a hardcore Southern suburban cookie-cutter neighborhood where I can enjoy peace, quiet, birds, my man-cave+home theater and comprehensive shopping options that don't require me to literally fight people for parking.
- nunez 3y agoIt's great that you get to enjoy birds and your home theater. Birds are amazing. That shouldn't be the _only_ option for people trying to buy an affordable SFH that isn't an apartment the size of a closet. I also don't think suburbs shouldn't exist at the cost of walkability. We lived in a modern suburb for two years. Parking was easy (driving to the parking was horrible), but I absolutely hated that walking anywhere was completely infeasible. Early suburbs were smaller, highly walkable and had (smaller) single family homes. I grew up in such a suburb after my first years in NYC. Our house was small (by today's standards), but I walked to school, walked to the main strip to hang out with friends and took the bus to the mall (though its schedule sucked) and to NYC (when I began working). Why can't more suburbs be like this?