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by akgerber 12y ago
There are a lot of different types of suburbs out there. I grew up in an old streetcar suburb in the Midwest where almost all of the kids walked to school (though most people still drove to work, since many jobs had sprawled out to office p
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by akgerber 12y ago
I'm sure the gay dating pool is pretty much always smaller than the straight, and beyond that the size of the pool depends a lot on the size of the city you're in— there are tons of people in NYC/Chicago/LA/SF.
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by akgerber 12y ago
This piece isn't trying to contrast NYC to anywhere in the US, since there are essentially no traditional cities in the US. A more traditionally-built city, and one that's even larger than NYC, is Tokyo. The couple clusters of tra
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by akgerber 12y ago
The Unitarian Universalist church is non-creedal and has many atheist members. Many cities also have Ethical Culture Societies, which mostly grew out of the non-religious elements of the Jewish community.
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by akgerber 12y ago
Taxis do it a lot. There are plenty of Prius taxis out there, and they seem to do pretty well too.
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by akgerber 12y ago
Sounds like s/he signed a contract with the gym which s/he only break if leaving town.
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by akgerber 12y ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/vox-media-vent... Vox Media is apparently at break-even after taking a ton of VC, but not profitable yet.
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by akgerber 12y ago
Pretty much any food is euphoric after hard exercise. But, while it doesn't look like this fellow eats the most delicious diet, it doesn't look unhealthy.
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by akgerber 12y ago
Pittsburgh has really weird demographics, with an uneducated older population, an educated younger population, a big gap in middle-aged population, and a massive housing surplus. Why? Pittsburgh's steel industry, which had tons of well
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by akgerber 12y ago
New York's murder rate is very similar to Denver's, and was actually lower in 2012. Its violent days are long past, and even its bad neighborhoods are as safe from violent crime as its richest 20 years ago: http://obser
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by akgerber 12y ago
Most New Yorkers don't own cars, but there are still trips that are very inconvenient by public transit (especially with kids or luggage or ...). So it makes a lot of financial sense for a lot of people of all means to use taxis/c
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by akgerber 12y ago
Obama wondered the same thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_cooperative http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04/02/293327561/small-h...
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by akgerber 12y ago
Chinatown busses definitely aren't gone. There's a couple blocking the bike lane on my commute home every night.
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by akgerber 12y ago
Transit riders see mostly see full busses & trains because they're riding the heavy-ridership routes through dense neighborhoods. People driving in spread-out neighborhoods mostly see empty busses & trains because they see the
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by akgerber 12y ago
NYC has by-far the best transit in the US, and people still constantly complain about it. I don't think there's any method of commuting people actually like, other than maybe bikes.
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by akgerber 12y ago
There's a huge racial aspect in anti-mass-transit politics in many American cities that's missing in SLC. Transit is fundamentally urban, and in a lot of the country 'urban' is code for black.
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by akgerber 12y ago
One of the major subsidies for auto drivers is deeply hidden in land use policies requiring huge amounts of free parking at all new construction, rather than the amount the developer desires at the price that the market will bear. Auto-orie
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by akgerber 12y ago
No American city is a city like New York— its public transit system is an order of magnitude different in ridership from any other: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_rapid_tra... That said, once a car
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by akgerber 12y ago
Hunting, maybe?
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by akgerber 12y ago
SLC is a counterexample to that trend, but Republicans definitely hate transit in many cities— for example, the Tennessee legislature tried to ban a bus rapid transit project in Nashville even when no state dollars were used: http:/&#
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by akgerber 12y ago
Many retirees have a house with a paid-off mortgage that they would sell before moving, so Social Security would just need to support their living expenses. They also have a 401(k) or pension if they took advantage of those programs. Social
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by akgerber 12y ago
When I lived in San Diego, my route for my bike commute to work included Interstate 5[0], because bikes can legally take the interstate shoulder in California where there's no practical alternative route. Y'all handling that edge
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by akgerber 12y ago
And, more importantly, enormous government restrictions on where it's legal to build anything other than single-family homes, even in big cities like Chicago: http://danielkayhertz.com/2014/01/27/zoning-i
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by akgerber 12y ago
That said, you just need to live in pretty much any decent-sized city to have access to good ingredients, and especially if you're comparing a major metro area with a suburb 20 years ago, it's an unfair comparison, as food has bec
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by akgerber 12y ago
Moto E is US$130 now, and will likely go down a decent amount when it's not brand new.
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by akgerber 12y ago
Even without removing fares, offboard fare payment and a proof of payment system, as used on many rail lines, would speed up bus boarding and free bus drivers from having to serve as fare enforcement.
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by akgerber 12y ago
When new systems age, something similar to Chicago is likely to happen, which just closed a 1969-vintage line for 6 months to do a major reconstruction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ryan_branch_(CTA) By all account
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by akgerber 12y ago
It's only problematic when you're doing it before the extension is public. Likewise, property on Second Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan has been cheap lately, because blasting out subway stations is unpleasant. But a ne
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Probably because they're developing very fast presently, and a fashionable-enough company that they get a lot of good applicants and can afford to be choosy with hiring.
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by akgerber 12y ago
The "moneyball" move is buying land right before the mass transit extension is completed and the neighborhood develops: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX_Orange_Line But this is a really fun article on how to

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