What is an exburb?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People may move to the burbs for "safety reasons, but that's because people are terrible at evaluating risk. The suburbs are considerably more dangerous than the city. While they're fretting about getting mugged in the city their kids are killing themselves in traffic in the burbs.

I don't know, I might want to see a citation for that. It's not like the city doesn't have traffic, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What about Maryland? Is Olney and exurb? Gaithersburg?

I wouldn't consider Olney or Gaithersburg exurbs. Clarksburg definitely, and maybe Germantown or Burtonsville.

These are all moving targets. 30 years ago, Manassas, Dranesville, Reston, Herndon, Montgomery Village, Olney, and Centreville were certainly all exurbs. And now, none of them are. 30 years ago, people could Afford to live inside the beltway on one income.

[Anonymous]

It's where the white people are (and where white families are moving to).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People may move to the burbs for "safety reasons, but that's because people are terrible at evaluating risk. The suburbs are considerably more dangerous than the city. While they're fretting about getting mugged in the city their kids are killing themselves in traffic in the burbs.

I don't know, I might want to see a citation for that. It's not like the city doesn't have traffic, too.

Speed kills. I grew up in the DC suburbs. Dead teens from MV accidents were a grim fact of life.


http://www.childrenssafetynetwork.org/sites/childrenssafetynetwork.org/files/US%202013%20Fact%20Sheet_Print.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
exurb= ex small town outside of a city that is now being developed with houses and strip malls, but has not yet gained suburban status (and may not gain that status for some time depending on many factors; public transportation and mindset of inhabitants being two of those).

Lovettsville, VA

[Anonymous]

London, Prince William, Howard counties. Any counties outside fairfax, Montgomery and PG counties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting, I live in dc and still consider great falls and centreville suburbs.

I'd consider Leesburg or Manassass to be exurbs. Maybe Frederick. An exurb is such that the population identifies more with their town than the large city they commute to.

Right. Meanwhile the suburbs are just bedroom communities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:London, Prince William, Howard counties. Any counties outside fairfax, Montgomery and PG counties.

London? That’s a city in England. Or Ontario.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting, I live in dc and still consider great falls and centreville suburbs.

I'd consider Leesburg or Manassass to be exurbs. Maybe Frederick. An exurb is such that the population identifies more with their town than the large city they commute to.

I consider Leesburg or Manassass rural.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting, I live in dc and still consider great falls and centreville suburbs.

I'd consider Leesburg or Manassass to be exurbs. Maybe Frederick. An exurb is such that the population identifies more with their town than the large city they commute to.

I consider Leesburg or Manassass rural.

Manassas is not rural.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly consider anything outside the beltway to be more exurb than suburban. I consider the palisades and spring valley and close in Bethesda to be suburban.

Outside the beltway is still suburbs. It's just the difference between inner-ring suburbs and outer-ring suburbs. Then you have the exurbs further out after that.

This is my take. Anything beyond Glover park or Eckington are really suburbs (the original street car suburbs) Then the early automotive age generated the second rink of surburbs that extended to the beltway. Literally inside the ring. Then you get the outer ring - literally outside the ring road. Many many capital cities around the world have such setups, paris, tokyo (though with suburban rail), moscow, madrid, etc.

[Anonymous]

If you have a metro stop you are a suburb. If you do not you might still be a suburb but you might be an exurb.

[Anonymous]

If it touches DC it’s a suburb. I’d include Fairfax County in that even though Arlington and Alexandria prevent it from directly touching DC. Yes, some of Fairfax feels pretty exurban like Great Falls and Clifton, as does southern/eastern Prince Georges in MD, but overall that seems to be the easy definition. Exurbs are further out.

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Anonymous wrote:Ashburn doesn't suck. I don't live there, but I have friends who do and I absolutely understand the appeal.

I fail to see what you can access in the close-in suburbs that you can't access in Ashburn (e.g. ethnic restaurants, recreation, retail). For those who do not have to commute downtown or who work in the Dulles corridor it's a great place to live. I think its aesthetics are what invoke the high level of snobbery.

Ashburn is unique among exurbs in its terrible aesthetics because of the mess of data centers.

[Anonymous]

In the exurbs, they chop up 10 acre farmland and woodland lots into 25 MV homes McMansion houses and a clubhouse. Aldie is a great example of this.

In the suburbs like Vienna and Arlington they tear down older homes on smaller individual lots to build Mc craftsmans