Why don’t Americans embrace urban living?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why the obsession with huge houses 3 miles away from everything. Why not access to parks, trails, restaurants, schools, grocery stores, socializing in coffee shops, biking etc?

The American obsession with SFH is unsustainable environmental, financially (impossible to maintain long exburban roads) and mentally

Ok, suburbanite here. Within 2 miles (in some cases just blocks away) there a highly rated walkable public elementary, coffee and bagel place, parks and playgrounds, bike and walking paths, a major hospital, 50+ places to eat, drink, shop, and socialize. Walk. Bike. Bus. Cars in my garage. All options on the table. I won't go into all the downsides of urban living. The news and social media public safety feeds offer and endless supply.

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I’m in Brambleton (Ashburn) and everything you mentioned is within steps of my house. I literally went weeks without stepping foot in my car. These city people are laughable thinking that EVERYTHING we need in the burbs is like a 10 mile drive to anywhere.

Why are city people so focused on us anyway? We don’t care how you live in the city. As someone who lived in NOMA a few years ago, I honestly don’t feel like I’m missing much out here in the burbs. The only thing I miss is not being able to go to a NBA/NHL game as easy anymore.

I have lived in DC for decades and have never ever been to Brambleton. Enough said

PP has probably never been to DC either, so this doesn’t mean anything.

[Anonymous]

Trust me.

How many people have purposefully been to ahem Brambleton?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trust me.

How many people have purposefully been to ahem Brambleton?

How many people purposely visit Palisades?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the obsession with huge houses 3 miles away from everything. Why not access to parks, trails, restaurants, schools, grocery stores, socializing in coffee shops, biking etc?

The American obsession with SFH is unsustainable environmental, financially (impossible to maintain long exburban roads) and mentally

Ok, suburbanite here. Within 2 miles (in some cases just blocks away) there a highly rated walkable public elementary, coffee and bagel place, parks and playgrounds, bike and walking paths, a major hospital, 50+ places to eat, drink, shop, and socialize. Walk. Bike. Bus. Cars in my garage. All options on the table. I won't go into all the downsides of urban living. The news and social media public safety feeds offer and endless supply.

+1

I’m in Brambleton (Ashburn) and everything you mentioned is within steps of my house. I literally went weeks without stepping foot in my car. These city people are laughable thinking that EVERYTHING we need in the burbs is like a 10 mile drive to anywhere.

Why are city people so focused on us anyway? We don’t care how you live in the city. As someone who lived in NOMA a few years ago, I honestly don’t feel like I’m missing much out here in the burbs. The only thing I miss is not being able to go to a NBA/NHL game as easy anymore.

I have lived in DC for decades and have never ever been to Brambleton. Enough said

PP has probably never been to DC either, so this doesn’t mean anything.

Can you read? PP said they lived in NOMA. Which is in DC.

If you don’t even know what NOMA is, have YOU ever been to DC? Doesn’t sound like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the obsession with huge houses 3 miles away from everything. Why not access to parks, trails, restaurants, schools, grocery stores, socializing in coffee shops, biking etc?

The American obsession with SFH is unsustainable environmental, financially (impossible to maintain long exburban roads) and mentally

Ok, suburbanite here. Within 2 miles (in some cases just blocks away) there a highly rated walkable public elementary, coffee and bagel place, parks and playgrounds, bike and walking paths, a major hospital, 50+ places to eat, drink, shop, and socialize. Walk. Bike. Bus. Cars in my garage. All options on the table. I won't go into all the downsides of urban living. The news and social media public safety feeds offer and endless supply.

+1

I’m in Brambleton (Ashburn) and everything you mentioned is within steps of my house. I literally went weeks without stepping foot in my car. These city people are laughable thinking that EVERYTHING we need in the burbs is like a 10 mile drive to anywhere.

Why are city people so focused on us anyway? We don’t care how you live in the city. As someone who lived in NOMA a few years ago, I honestly don’t feel like I’m missing much out here in the burbs. The only thing I miss is not being able to go to a NBA/NHL game as easy anymore.

I have lived in DC for decades and have never ever been to Brambleton. Enough said

Ok…lol. Cool story.

Let’s do a quick poll. How many people living in DC (actually living in DC) have been or desire to go to “Brambleton”?

lol that’s the entire point of living in the burbs. We don’t expect city people to want to go to the burbs and we’re ok with that.

It’s oddly enough, the city folks who are very insecure that some of us don’t have a desire to go into DC every week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trust me.

How many people have purposefully been to ahem Brambleton?

How many people purposely visit Palisades?

Loads actually

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the obsession with huge houses 3 miles away from everything. Why not access to parks, trails, restaurants, schools, grocery stores, socializing in coffee shops, biking etc?

The American obsession with SFH is unsustainable environmental, financially (impossible to maintain long exburban roads) and mentally

Ok, suburbanite here. Within 2 miles (in some cases just blocks away) there a highly rated walkable public elementary, coffee and bagel place, parks and playgrounds, bike and walking paths, a major hospital, 50+ places to eat, drink, shop, and socialize. Walk. Bike. Bus. Cars in my garage. All options on the table. I won't go into all the downsides of urban living. The news and social media public safety feeds offer and endless supply.

+1

I’m in Brambleton (Ashburn) and everything you mentioned is within steps of my house. I literally went weeks without stepping foot in my car. These city people are laughable thinking that EVERYTHING we need in the burbs is like a 10 mile drive to anywhere.

Why are city people so focused on us anyway? We don’t care how you live in the city. As someone who lived in NOMA a few years ago, I honestly don’t feel like I’m missing much out here in the burbs. The only thing I miss is not being able to go to a NBA/NHL game as easy anymore.

I have lived in DC for decades and have never ever been to Brambleton. Enough said

Ok…lol. Cool story.

Let’s do a quick poll. How many people living in DC (actually living in DC) have been or desire to go to “Brambleton”?

lol that’s the entire point of living in the burbs. We don’t expect city people to want to go to the burbs and we’re ok with that.

It’s oddly enough, the city folks who are very insecure that some of us don’t have a desire to go into DC every week.

Exactly. Keep your weed and drugs and violence in DC. We don’t want that shit here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trust me.

How many people have purposefully been to ahem Brambleton?

How many people purposely visit Palisades?

Loads actually

Who?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the obsession with huge houses 3 miles away from everything. Why not access to parks, trails, restaurants, schools, grocery stores, socializing in coffee shops, biking etc?

The American obsession with SFH is unsustainable environmental, financially (impossible to maintain long exburban roads) and mentally

We do embrace it, and that's why its so expensive to live in urban cores.

+1. We wanted to live in DC (my husband is from NYC), but we were priced out!

There are many affordable properties in DC. Be honest about what you are really looking for.

[Anonymous]

I don’t want to walk places in cold, hot, or wet weather. I don’t want to have to walk home my groceries or continually worry where I will park if I leave the house in my car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the obsession with huge houses 3 miles away from everything. Why not access to parks, trails, restaurants, schools, grocery stores, socializing in coffee shops, biking etc?

The American obsession with SFH is unsustainable environmental, financially (impossible to maintain long exburban roads) and mentally

We do embrace it, and that's why its so expensive to live in urban cores.

+1. We wanted to live in DC (my husband is from NYC), but we were priced out!

There are many affordable properties in DC. Be honest about what you are really looking for.

Not in the parts where you won’t get shot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the obsession with huge houses 3 miles away from everything. Why not access to parks, trails, restaurants, schools, grocery stores, socializing in coffee shops, biking etc?

The American obsession with SFH is unsustainable environmental, financially (impossible to maintain long exburban roads) and mentally

Ok, suburbanite here. Within 2 miles (in some cases just blocks away) there a highly rated walkable public elementary, coffee and bagel place, parks and playgrounds, bike and walking paths, a major hospital, 50+ places to eat, drink, shop, and socialize. Walk. Bike. Bus. Cars in my garage. All options on the table. I won't go into all the downsides of urban living. The news and social media public safety feeds offer and endless supply.

+1

I’m in Brambleton (Ashburn) and everything you mentioned is within steps of my house. I literally went weeks without stepping foot in my car. These city people are laughable thinking that EVERYTHING we need in the burbs is like a 10 mile drive to anywhere.

Why are city people so focused on us anyway? We don’t care how you live in the city. As someone who lived in NOMA a few years ago, I honestly don’t feel like I’m missing much out here in the burbs. The only thing I miss is not being able to go to a NBA/NHL game as easy anymore.

I have lived in DC for decades and have never ever been to Brambleton. Enough said

Ok…lol. Cool story.

Let’s do a quick poll. How many people living in DC (actually living in DC) have been or desire to go to “Brambleton”?

Brambleton has a pretty interesting history. Much of the land was inherited by the Catholic Diocese of Arlington and they sold the land to pay off priest lawyer suits.

[Anonymous]

So I was in an Arlington bakery today and parked next to a car with a DC license plate. I went inside and spotted the DC people immediately. Scruffy beard man with beanie, biking shorts, and Yale sweatshirt; aggressive woman with hair in messy topknot, long skirt, and ill fitting shirt; two scraggly looking kids with net skirts and tangled hair bumping into people and yelling. Woman and man were separately arguing with teenage kids who did not get their orders right -- man wanted his two donuts in a box rather than a bag but didn't tell the kid until he handed them to him in a bag and said he "expected" a box; wife complaining that the bread did not smell fresh. People just stepped away from them and let them melt down. In a bakery -- on a Sunday afternoon. After trying to get a discount because the donuts were crushed, they got into their Prius and drove away.

They are definitely city folk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the obsession with huge houses 3 miles away from everything. Why not access to parks, trails, restaurants, schools, grocery stores, socializing in coffee shops, biking etc?

The American obsession with SFH is unsustainable environmental, financially (impossible to maintain long exburban roads) and mentally

Ok, suburbanite here. Within 2 miles (in some cases just blocks away) there a highly rated walkable public elementary, coffee and bagel place, parks and playgrounds, bike and walking paths, a major hospital, 50+ places to eat, drink, shop, and socialize. Walk. Bike. Bus. Cars in my garage. All options on the table. I won't go into all the downsides of urban living. The news and social media public safety feeds offer and endless supply.

+1

I’m in Brambleton (Ashburn) and everything you mentioned is within steps of my house. I literally went weeks without stepping foot in my car. These city people are laughable thinking that EVERYTHING we need in the burbs is like a 10 mile drive to anywhere.

Why are city people so focused on us anyway? We don’t care how you live in the city. As someone who lived in NOMA a few years ago, I honestly don’t feel like I’m missing much out here in the burbs. The only thing I miss is not being able to go to a NBA/NHL game as easy anymore.

I have lived in DC for decades and have never ever been to Brambleton. Enough said

Ok…lol. Cool story.

Let’s do a quick poll. How many people living in DC (actually living in DC) have been or desire to go to “Brambleton”?

Brambleton has a pretty interesting history. Much of the land was inherited by the Catholic Diocese of Arlington and they sold the land to pay off priest lawyer suits.

Yes, and as we well know the Catholic Church sells off only their prime land

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I was in an Arlington bakery today and parked next to a car with a DC license plate. I went inside and spotted the DC people immediately. Scruffy beard man with beanie, biking shorts, and Yale sweatshirt; aggressive woman with hair in messy topknot, long skirt, and ill fitting shirt; two scraggly looking kids with net skirts and tangled hair bumping into people and yelling. Woman and man were separately arguing with teenage kids who did not get their orders right -- man wanted his two donuts in a box rather than a bag but didn't tell the kid until he handed them to him in a bag and said he "expected" a box; wife complaining that the bread did not smell fresh. People just stepped away from them and let them melt down. In a bakery -- on a Sunday afternoon. After trying to get a discount because the donuts were crushed, they got into their Prius and drove away.

They are definitely city folk.

Aggressive? Pray tell the race, I think I know where you’re going. It’s backwards.