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House ownership statements are always with a location in mind. I want to walk or take public transport for 15-20 minutes to have most medical docs around, multi

by bosie 3y ago

House ownership statements are always with a location in mind. I want to walk or take public transport for 15-20 minutes to have most medical docs around, multiple different cuisines, park etc. What i do not care is a 2 car garage. That already implies a lifestyle i really do not want. So where wpuld i move to in the US?

wolverine876 3y ago
Move to a less expensive neighborhood of a dense city? Looking at the northeast US, where cities are denser - Baltimore? Philadelphia?
PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
here? if you don't want a 2 car garage then fine, move downtown. You can get _anywhere_ in this town in 20 minutes or less. We flat don't have the traffic that places like NYC does. rush hour might be a bit slower depending on where you go, but not appreciably slow. I feel like people who don't live in these areas have a lot of misconceptions.
- bradlys 3y ago
  This might be an exceptional town, not sure what kind of place you're talking about, but most places don't have public transit or much in the way of walkability in the USA. He's talking of not using a car and doesn't want to drive at all.
  - PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
    considering how infamously bad traffic is in NYC I find it difficult to believe that you can actually just not own a vehicle in NYC. who knows, maybe it's not really that bad and I'm ignorant here, it's possible. But my point is that if you don't own a car there's automatically a limited range of movement that you have. It might be better in NYC (it probably is), but we have areas like that too. We also have public transportation in the form of buses rather than subways and they stop a lot so it can take longer but you can get anywhere in this city via bus, including the suburbs. You can absolutely pick an area for its walkability and use the bus transport to move around the rest of the city. But to leave the city will require a vehicle or a greyhound.
    - bradlys 3y ago
      > considering how infamously bad traffic is in NYC I find it difficult to believe that you can actually just not own a vehicle in NYC. > who knows, maybe it's not really that bad and I'm ignorant here, it's possible. You answered your own question.
      - PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
        That may be true, but according to this: https://www.thecentersquare.com/new_york/article_d37b99d4-18b0-11eb-830b-132ac7bdd8f5.html https://www.thecentersquare.com/new_york/article_d37b99d4-18... NYC most definitely has far longer commute times than this area. Even in rush hour traffic, 20 minutes implies driving from 1 side of this city to the other, some in NYC are reporting commute times of over an hour.
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by bosie 3y ago

wolverine876 3y ago

Move to a less expensive neighborhood of a dense city? Looking at the northeast US, where cities are denser - Baltimore? Philadelphia?

PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago

here? if you don't want a 2 car garage then fine, move downtown. You can get _anywhere_ in this town in 20 minutes or less. We flat don't have the traffic that places like NYC does. rush hour might be a bit slower depending on where you go, but not appreciably slow. I feel like people who don't live in these areas have a lot of misconceptions.

bradlys 3y ago
This might be an exceptional town, not sure what kind of place you're talking about, but most places don't have public transit or much in the way of walkability in the USA. He's talking of not using a car and doesn't want to drive at all.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
  considering how infamously bad traffic is in NYC I find it difficult to believe that you can actually just not own a vehicle in NYC. who knows, maybe it's not really that bad and I'm ignorant here, it's possible. But my point is that if you don't own a car there's automatically a limited range of movement that you have. It might be better in NYC (it probably is), but we have areas like that too. We also have public transportation in the form of buses rather than subways and they stop a lot so it can take longer but you can get anywhere in this city via bus, including the suburbs. You can absolutely pick an area for its walkability and use the bus transport to move around the rest of the city. But to leave the city will require a vehicle or a greyhound.
  - bradlys 3y ago
    > considering how infamously bad traffic is in NYC I find it difficult to believe that you can actually just not own a vehicle in NYC. > who knows, maybe it's not really that bad and I'm ignorant here, it's possible. You answered your own question.
    - PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
      That may be true, but according to this: https://www.thecentersquare.com/new_york/article_d37b99d4-18b0-11eb-830b-132ac7bdd8f5.html https://www.thecentersquare.com/new_york/article_d37b99d4-18... NYC most definitely has far longer commute times than this area. Even in rush hour traffic, 20 minutes implies driving from 1 side of this city to the other, some in NYC are reporting commute times of over an hour.
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