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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The term exurb originated in the 50's for places in greater NY and Boston that were really small towns on commuter rail lines that attracted rather affluent people who were willing to trade a long rail commute all the way downtown for a rural lifestyle.

http://www.amazon.com/The-exurbanites-Auguste-C-Spectorsky/dp/B0007DN63I

That lifestyle simple does not exist in greater DC (for the most part), because we don't have the many commuter rail stations or rail road focused small towns.   People living on the edge of the metro area either are commuting to another suburb, or they are distinctly non-affluent people taking a heliish drive or a relatively infrequent inconvenient train so they can afford a largish house in a standard suburban subdivision on a modest civil service salary.  Or they are folks who make their commute bearable by teleworking 2 or more days a week.

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I disagree.  I know quite a number of people who commute to DC on rail from Baltimore, the Baltimore suburbs and a few that commute from Phillie and Wilmington area.  It's a long commute, but mostly by rail and they have laptops and work on the train.  I also know people who commute from the areas.  Although Baltimore is its own city, I consider the Baltimore suburbs to be exurbs for those who commute to DC including the southern suburbs like Linthicum, Hanover, Glen Burnie, Odenton, etc.  Much of the MAC rail lines and the VRE rail lines are rail commuters from exurban towns into downtown DC.[/quote]

You prove my point. Those are CITIES or close in suburbs of other cities - not comparable to the kinds of small RR towns in the Hudson Valley or eastern Mass that were the stape of writers like Cheever and Updike.

I agree a place like Fredericksburg Va or Frederick Md, might be like that - except that the folks who live there are mostly not that affluent, and at least in the case of VRE, the trains are too infreguent and I believe too spartan.   Express trains with bar cars really complete the package.  [/quote]

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