Why don’t Americans embrace urban living?

[Anonymous]

When I meet people from the city, they just seem to have less skills working on the land or with their body. Either very academic or very mom and pop stick to the neighborhood types. America is huge. Why does everyone need to live in a city? Who is going to work the land?

[Anonymous]

That’s it! The brambleton folk meanwhile ….

Don’t believe that obesity and diabetes stat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I meet people from the city, they just seem to have less skills working on the land or with their body. Either very academic or very mom and pop stick to the neighborhood types. America is huge. Why does everyone need to live in a city? Who is going to work the land?

I respect rural people


This thread isn’t about them

It’s about suburban people

They are not working the land

[Anonymous]

Exactly right

[Anonymous]

To answer OPs question, growing up here, for most people, DC was a place you HAD to go to for work then go back home to safety. Except kids liked going clubbing there. We, the middle class Washingtonians, always wanted a nice suburban home in a better zipcode than we grew up in with 2 cars and the cute dog. We aren't from Mayberry dreaming of what it's like to walk to a store or ride the subway. No, we grew up HAVING to ride the subway, with no smartphones, bored as F, counting the remaining stops on the WMATA map. 5, 4, 3, 2, thank God. We want to be downtown when we chose to be downtown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To answer OPs question, growing up here, for most people, DC was a place you HAD to go to for work then go back home to safety. Except kids liked going clubbing there. We, the middle class Washingtonians, always wanted a nice suburban home in a better zipcode than we grew up in with 2 cars and the cute dog. We aren't from Mayberry dreaming of what it's like to walk to a store or ride the subway. No, we grew up HAVING to ride the subway, with no smartphones, bored as F, counting the remaining stops on the WMATA map. 5, 4, 3, 2, thank God. We want to be downtown when we chose to be downtown.

And then for some of us who grew up here, once we were old enough to decide where to live for ourselves (instead of just living where our parents happened to live), we wanted to live in the District and are happy to be here. In my case, my parents even wound up moving downtown (they're now in a denser part of the city than I am). But I like walking to stuff instead of always having to drive places like I did as a kid.

[Anonymous]

Tons of obvious sockpuppeting in this thread. I really wonder why people are insecure about someone’s choice of where to live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me elaborate: DC has a couple great venues. The Black Cat and the 9:30 club are legitimately great. NYC has dozens upon dozens. As does Chicago and LA.

There’s just no comparison. Why do you think most artists don’t live in this area?

+1

People pretend to make DC a thing compared to NYC or SF and it’s just not. DC is nothing special as a major city.