Sitting here trying to chill on the couch at 10am on a Saturday. Over the back fence is a dog that barks constantly whenever it’s left unattended, and some toddler in a nearby apartment block has been throwing a screaming tantrum for the last 15 minutes, which also happens regularly. How’s the serenity?
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I love being in the city.
I love being in the middle of nowhere.
I hate the middle ground. The suburbs/exurbs combine the worst features of urban and rural living. Everyone is spread out enough to be car dependent, but still close enough to be in each other’s way.
I’m technically in the suburbs - low/medium density housing - but it’s fairly close to the city and I can walk to what they’d call in the UK the High Street, so I could easily get by without a car. It’s pretty sweet, just a bit noisy at times. I’m also under the flight path for the city’s airport. Swings and roundabouts, I guess.
Agreed. Have lived in the suburbs, in the hip part of town, and now in the country. I can easily do the city or country, suburbs, hell no, never again.
I agree but I live in a technical suburb at the end of a transit line because its more affordable. would love to live in a high rise. not big on living in rural areas but its nice for a getaway.
If you’re doing it because of money, that’s completely fine in my book. No issues.
However I have friends who went to the suburbs to “get away from the city”, to “have a rural life”, and “small town living”. All sounds great except they bought a McMansion in a subdivision with an overbearing HOA, there is no small town except for the auto mile and big box stores 10 miles away, they have to drive everywhere, and the closest thing to nature is the artificial lake in the center of the complex. These types of people drive me up the wall.
As someone who has both lived urban and rural, it’s neither, it’s the worst of both worlds, and it’s the worst for the environment and planet. It’s all purely because they want a single family home but also don’t want to give up amenities of the city. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
I completely get it because I pretty much feel this way. Where im at im still at the end of the metro line and there are actually a fair amount of 4 over 2 type condos but there are also single family homes. I live in a condo. So it is just sorta technically suburbs as its outside the city. Sorta sucks that it costs so much to live in real downtown. Part of it I think is the 6 over 2 are sorta the lowest cost per square foot while being land efficient. Like the elevator in my building is pneumatic but over a certain height that kind won’t work.
I really love that type of construction, it is super efficient. People think of big skyscrapers but even just 2 units can be very efficient!
At one pointed I rented a unit in a six flat and my dream but I could never swing it was to own a multiflat. High flying dream was to actually be able to get one built like a zigarat so every level had small yards. It is super efficient but I would still love to be in a high rise but mostly just to be in the heart of transit and to have all the density so everything you can think of is close by. Would also love if my city banned cars from the downtown area. It has such an obvious area that its kinda pointless to have traffic in.