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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum
And even if you don't live in a bigger city, it makes sense to at least have a town/urban center no matter how small/big it is near by so you can easily get to stuff/find other people in an emergency.
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We moved to a great spot in the middle of everything but still in a suburb. We have a quarter acre but can get to Seattle or another large-ish city in less than 10 minutes. It's fantastic. I have no intentions to ever live in a downtown city environment- I like my privacy, quiet, and parking. But I also don't want to be in the boonies
I know this area is kind of unique because Microsoft went off and built its HQ in a non-big city, which completely throws off all normal commuting conventions, and makes us fantastic with urban sprawl. But I wonder if there's something about city vs. suburbs vs. in-betweens... the burbs on the edge.
Bad public transportation also exists up in the northwest. For a supposedly green area, the Seattle metro public transportation is terrible. If you just need to get from Seattle to Seattle, you're golden. If you happen to live along the right bus line, it's great. But for most people who want to commute it doesn't work. I once looked at taking the bus to work- I would've had to take 3 buses, and to go southeast I would've had to go north, south, west, east. It would've taken an hour and a half versus my 35 minutes. No thank you.
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This gap is pronounced in suburbs of fast-growing areas in the Southwest, including those in Florida, California, Nevada, and Texas.
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I love that this sentence makes it sound like Florida is part of the southwest. Apparently geography was rearranged on me.
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