Posted on 02/23/2005 3:23:06 PM PST by srm913
I'll never understand why people move into neighborhoods with no sidewalks.
Regarding residential architecture at least, it needs to be said that relative uniformity is not exactly a new thing, in the US or elsewhere. Former "suburbs" age, with individual structures marked and changed by successive owners. Landscape matures. The ugly, raw, far-flung subdivisions of the past, with once-nearly-identical housing, can and often do become newly desireable over time, as "charm" is acquired and market perception shifts to viewing these older, inner suburbs as being close-in and convenient.
The Guardian doesn't like exurbia, because it promises to destroy the DemocRAT party.
What a whiner. What's this guy's problem anyway?
I hear you.
I once heard a guy on a call in radio show saying "What the hell do we need sidewalks for? You can't drive on them"
it is amazing how phoenix is growing. i remember it before the freeways were built. i never thought i'd see the suburbs reach the mountains to the west, but they're moving right on by.
asu recently had to be divided up into 3 universities because projections were that in 10 years or less it would be a 100,000 student university.
people are talking about phoenix being the "new los angeles".
Without googling, I think Wyoming is around 800K and Montana around 1 million. Maybe.
Geez, this article makes me feel like Americans are the Borg -- Assimilate or die!
He doesn't like ugliness. I don't either. I think we would all live a lot better if we weren't being crowded out into the exurbs by the huge influx of impoverished and sometimes criminal illegal immigrants around every major city. And frankly a lot of the housing that's being built now is built with planned obsolescence in mind, with truly crappy construction that will urge the owner to move even further out into a newer house in five years.
Wyoming less than 500 thousand. Montana around 650 000.
The brits would love to have that much freedom to roam?
Maybe they wouldn't have to abandon the Fox hunt?
>>I live/sometimes live in Silicon Valley. I love the houses from the 70's
Well I have to disagree (I live here too). Those houses are hideous. Most of Silicon Valley architecture is hideous though, so it's really no surprise.
The very words "downtown" and "urban" make my skin crawl - I loath cities, and have more trees on my acreage than I can possibly count.
I plan to keep it that way.
I used to live in Mesa, Arizona. It is amazing how much the valley has grown. Mesa, for those not familar with the geography, is to the east of Phoenix, and has experienced similar growth. Some good friends of my wife and I were able to afford a new home just after graduating college and getting married. It wasn't big and fancy, hardley a manse. Made of stucco and having little in the way of landscaping, it was modest. But they were able to afford it because of the economy of scale. They recently had their first baby. I guess Mr. Hunt would have preferred that they rented.
And then you might choose to live in those cramped wall-to-wall town homes they call houses in Angleland. I've been in many of them and came away amazed that anyone can exist in such cookie-cutter, dreary houses. The architecture and interior decor is so 19th century one feels as though the whole country never will amount to anything (of course it won't-too socialistic). Our daughter's house in London seems identical to the neighbor's houses and, although it is relatively new and expensive, it already looks as though it needs a major overhaul and beautification. England also has some significant sprawl and people drive for miles to reach a US-style shopping center.
Yeah I was way off. I couldn't remember if they were at the 500K mark or the mil mark, but I knew that Montana was about 200K more than Wyoming. If that means anything.
But I did do it honestly!
Well, then, I guess I like ugliness. I like chaos. I like cookie-cutter homes. I like strip malls. I like townhouses. I like not being able to get chinese buffet every block. I like to be able to fill up my car without driving around looking for a gas station. I like convienence stores. They're convienent! I like malls. I like the big box stores. They got everything! I like billboards, I like signs. These things smell like prosperity to me.
Personally, I don't like all those cookie cutter subdivisions.
I'd rather live in a condo than that.
Ivan, considering the opinion many people around the world have of United States citizens, I'm not sure they, don't, form their opinions of us from reading the Post and Times, maybe even from The National Inquirer or Mad Magazine.
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