[Cronos]

Interesting read

[ottbmare]

Can’t disagree with any of it. The trick is figuring out how to support yourself but also have a short or nonexistent commute without living in the horrid city. I would go mad if I had to live in a city again.

[Olog-hai]

I’d sure love to ride through the Holland Tunnel on a bicycle. Phew. The days of relatively-open-air trans-Hudson commuting on the ferries are kaput for vehicular traffic.

NYC hated vehicular commuting even at the height of the dominance of railroads, and always actively worked against it even to the city’s detriment. They even went so far as to ban steam locomotives south of 42^nd Street—which dictated where Grand Central Terminal ended up, and prevented the steam railroads on the New Jersey and Long Island sides from building bridges into Manhattan. When the government started spending on roads, Manhattan’s NIMBYs jumped out of their skins over the prospects of projects such as the Mid-Manhattan Expressway and Lower Manhattan Expressway—which ended up not being built. (Even the West Side Highway, built by the New York Central Railroad, ended up being torn down and not rebuilt as planned.)

I would say that the nature of jobs rather than proximity might be a factor. The area in question used to have a lot of manufacturing—that is, until mayors like Robert F. Wagner Jr. showed up and started upping the taxes so that he and others could spend on social programs, which scared the manufacturing jobs away. People that commuted to these jobs did not have the same kind of health or sleeplessness problems that today’s commuters seem to suffer . . . then again, they also did not have access to the same kind of drugs . . .

[Gaffer]

The Constitution requires an enumerated Census every 10 years; it does not required a fantastically bloated government agency with thousands and thousands of employees working full time, all the time.

Anyone who has seen the Census Bureau facilities in Maryland and well understand just how bloated this agency is.

[nathanbedford]

WARNING WARNING WARNING

This article has nothing to do with the incidence of high blood pressure among commuters, this article is an opening gun in the campaign on the left to destroy our federal system of cities, counties and states.

It is the plan of the Obama administration to do away with governmental jurisdictions being delineated by states and cities within states and to redraw our maps both geographically and governmentally so that the inner-city can suck taxes from the suburbs and achieve wealth distribution through this transformation. Do not think about New York, think Detroit.

More, the left's ambitions do not stop merely with taking over your property taxes and funneling them into the inner-city but those ambitions extend to controlling the school system, the road system, the tolls on those roads, and, through the zoning boards, to actually, literally control where you will be permitted to live. Do not think about easing highway congestion, think about how Obamacare federalized the health delivery system, the health insurance business, and inserted federal control over your doctor's decisions.

Same game new playground.

These are not merely my paranoid ravings, these are explicit ambitions of this administration reduced to writing and made public.

[yldstrk]

I used to drive up north to take one kid to boxing, out south to take daughter to horsebackriding, south west to take son to football, it was very time consuming but I don’t regret it. I like living in the suburbs and my drives were nothing compared to the commute my New Jersey living New York working cousin put up with until she moved here.

[TurboZamboni]

I’ve never had to give Colin Ferguson a ride in my car.

[CodeToad]

This coming from the NYT, an extreme left-wing rag, as liberals LOVE cities and want us all to live in them. They write articles like this impugning those that do not live in the cities.

I say demolish the cities, outlaw congested living, force the spreading out of businesses, and prevent these vote robbing geographic embarrassments.

[grania]

The problem is the destruction of towns and small cities. Those environments provide a much better lifestyle for health, jobs, safety, and a feeling of inclusion. It would involve jobs and retail coming back to “downtown”.

[dfwgator]

Anyone who ever watched a meeting of the Dallas City Council, will understand why I have absolutely no desire to live in Dallas.

[virgil283]

"Only 5 percent used public transportation"...smalldeadanimals.com has a regular column on the perils of "Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car"....don' think I'd go back to the bus again...

[discostu]

You gotta make decisions in this world. When you decide to live “away from it all” you have to remember that “it all” is where you spend most of your not at home time, so you drive. That’s why I live in quiet corners of midtown, near “it all” but still with space and peace. Almost none of my drives are more than 15 minutes.