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Agreed. There's plenty of people leaving around Greater London who only commute for work. A place like Wimbledon might be a solid 40 minutes trip out of London
by swombat 13y ago
Agreed. There's plenty of people leaving around Greater London who only commute for work. A place like Wimbledon might be a solid 40 minutes trip out of London (at the end of a tube line) but if you live there, there's everything you want nearby and you don't have to go anywhere else to find a nice little town that you can walk about and enjoy yourself in.
A suburb that isn't a place where you can actually live - there's a name for that in french, we call them cités dortoirs - dormitory towns. No one wants to live there.
- a3n 13y agoIn English in America they're "bedroom communities." Just a place to sleep. (The metaphors run deep on that one.)
- saraid216 13y agoThere's a point at which saying, "The Matrix has you," is no longer amusing.
- rayiner 13y agoThere's towns like that in the U.S. I used my car about once a month in the New York suburbs 20 miles north of Manhattan. All those little towns are on the train line, and have walkable downtowns where you can get whatever you need.