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Sprawl struck me as a curious factor too. I can see it both ways - less sprawl means you don't have to go so far out of the city to get into the countryside; m
by bshimmin 12y ago
Sprawl struck me as a curious factor too. I can see it both ways - less sprawl means you don't have to go so far out of the city to get into the countryside; more sprawl means there are potentially affordable suburban areas whence you can easily commute into the city.
London, for instance, is pretty sprawling, but many of the commuter towns or villages are actually very pleasant, desirable places to live (they can also be extremely expensive - though not so bad, of course, as central London, which is prohibitively expensive for anyone who isn't an oil sheikh).
- tormeh 12y agoI view it differently. Sprawl means you're never where things happen. Everything is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. With dense cities, everything is at your doorstep, and that makes it much more likely that you'll actually participate in great and exciting things and events.