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tombarnes City

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Downtown Washington, D.C.- five blocks north of Dupont Circle in the Kalorama neighborhood. I love living downtown. In Fort Lauderdale, we are moving from the Galleria area to Lauderdale Beach, a bit north of the center of town, but still fairly urban in feel. In our new place, we are able to walk half a block through a park and be directly on the beach.

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Wolfgang Crossroads

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I love cities. But, I have had enough of them, having lived there all my life. I believe I have found the best alternative for me, which is neither urban or suburban. I am a ruralite and live with fields and streams and birds and peace and quiet and darkness of night. In my opinion, there is a huge difference between suburbs and rural areas. I have never had a desire to live in a suburban area. With transportation and the internet what they are today, the advantage that cities once had over rural areas has, I think, largely disappeared. The one thing I don't like about living in the country is the dependency on the automobile. But, it is a small price to pay for not having to worry about things stolen from my yard, being mugged, and enduring obnoxious neighbors.

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andrew.w Hamlet

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I lived in suburaban Rockford, MI for nine years and while I lived there it was more rural/suburb mix. But now every time I visit more of the rural aspect has dissapeared to treeless subdivisions with curved mazes of roads and rubber stamp vinyl sided houses. Were are the quality developments? :(

I'm currently going to a school in a suburb, but I would like to try living in a city.

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jpl02 Hamlet

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I live somewhere in the middle.....between downtown Tallahassee and what would be considered "the burbs". I'm only a mile from downtown, but can't quite say I live there. I do, however, live two blocks from work and school. Can't beat that in an auto-oriented city like this.

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richyb83 Megalopolis

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I live on the edge of the city limits ; so I guess it's technically the suburbs . And my area (Millerville, eastern border of Baton Rouge) is booming with new a Super Target , Lowe's, Best Buy , Cinemas , Luxury Condo's , and now it seems as if the rest of the open/wooded spaces are filling up with small neighborhoods . I am not sure why we are not located in the city limits , we are surrounded by the city limits on three sides .

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suburban george3 Town

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I live right at the edge of where the city/burbs meet. It's a booming area of the city and new suburbs in South Winston-Salem. I live in a new single mixed used development (commercial, single family, and dense resedential(townhomes). I can walk to the grocery, drug store, and several other restaurants/shoppes. Highway access out of town in the morning is more important to me (my job requires me to drive to other areas in the SE almost daily) so not being in the middle of all the am traffic is a help as well.

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TennBear Hamlet

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Downtown Washington, D.C.- five blocks north of Dupont Circle in the Kalorama neighborhood. I love living downtown. In Fort Lauderdale, we are moving from the Galleria area to Lauderdale Beach, a bit north of the center of town, but still fairly urban in feel. In our new place, we are able to walk half a block through a park and be directly on the beach.

There's a cute little house that I've had a hankering for in your neighborhood overlooking Rock Creek Park, but the those French Speaking people just won't give it up. Just as well, I'd have the Chinese looking out their windows everytime I did anything. :rofl:

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TennBear Hamlet

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To answer the question, I live in the suburbs. I do miss city life, but Columbia is very nice. It feels very small, but has 100,000 people. Is very clean, tree covered, and friendly. Besides, I couldn't afford the place I have now, so I know I can't afford to move.

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fearlessvk Unincorporated Area

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I live in Berkeley, CA right now...I guess that's technically a suburb of SF, but... .it's got such a sense of place of its own, it's a bit hard to think of myself as really living in the burbs. There's a bus stop right across the street from me, a BART (subway) stop within 15 minutes walk, and about 30 restaurants, 5 bars, 10 coffee shops, 4 bookstores, 3 record stores, 3 grocery stores, and more thrift stores than I can count within walking distance. Not to mention the Berkeley campus. So it feels reasonably urban. I don't own a car and don't feel like I need one. I've lived in the Bay Area for nearly 7 years now, and I've basically moved back and forth between Berkeley and Oakland a bunch of times until I found my present apartment, which is finally a beautiful and spacious living space (hard to come by in the Bay Area on a grad student salary!!) I'm very much a city person - I don't necessarily mind a suburb that has easy access to some kind of public transit that will take me straight into the city, but if I'm more disconnected than that, I get depressed. And I need to see peestrians. If people aren't walking on the sidewalks, something feels very, very wrong.

In 5 months I'm moving to Memphis, TN... big change I know :) From everything I've heard I hope to find place in Midtown. Lotsa helpful folks on the Memphis board have given me plenty to look forward to, despite some apprehensions about going from the infamously crazy bastion of left-wing eccentricity that is the Bay Area to the Bible Belt. But, I'm happy that I'm moving to a city - I was scared I was gonna end up in rural Kentucky or something, since the academic job market isn't exactly thriving.

I plan on visiting my friends back in SF often.... I love this place. That ridiculously cheesy song, I left my heart in SF" - I think it will be true for me...

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EbonyGardens Hamlet

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I lived in the city for much of my life, then I moved to the suburbs (Woodville), then after I graduated from TCC I moved back into the city because I wanted to be near everything. Driving 10 miles back & forth to school/work burns a hole in your gas budget.

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Cadeho City

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The city... it's the place to be! Although I do like to ride in the suburbs and country. Everything's so perfect out there. But the city has character, history, and is the center of attention.

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I live out in the country but 45 minutes to an hour away from 4 mid sized cities (New Haven, Hartford, Worcester, Providece). I can go to the cities (which I only occasionally do) to have a good time on the weekends, but I usually stick around here and sometimes go to the local casinos. I like having a lot of property, mostly for the summer time. I can have the best blueberries, raspberries, and garden vegetables you'll ever eat right from the back yard. We grow so many berries I'm able to have fruit smoothies for breakfast every day before I go to work year 'round. I went to college in Providence and I love it to death, but I have fallen in love with the type of area that I grew up in now that I'm "working".

Having said that, I can't stand the people who move into the new houses that are built on old farms (such as the one next to men where the old man died, and the kids "sold out"... though I can't blame the kids). They for the most part fail to take advantage of any of the great things about living away from the city. If they have a garden it's miniscule, but they'll spend hours upon hours landscaping their yards so they have nice lawns (taking up too much precious well water at the same time). I don't get what the point of a great lawn is ... you can play football and have barbeques on lawns with dandelions just as well as you can a lawn that's perfectly green grass. There's this giant cedar forest this guy has that if the farmer was still there, would be used for cutting down trees for cedar posts. These are people whose only interest in "country life" is to be isolated from the rest of the world.

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SouthParkRocks Unincorporated Area

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Definitely the city-actually what is termed a "street car suburb" platted in 1880's, street cars went in in 1906 and most houses built within the next three decades. In San Diego.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/content.c...nt_type_id=6635

I think these inner ring suburbs give one the best of both worlds, mix of single-family and moderate density housing, traditionally laid out grid streets, mature landscaping and easy accessability to the city core, walkable in 5mins to the village shops and restaurants of this neighborhood.

We live literally on a canyon in Balboa Park, looks like the woods from our house-and can walk to the heart of downtown in 35 mins (or take the bus or cheap cab ride in 10) to take in a ball game at the new Ball Park or clubs and shopping.

Lots of great first ring neighborhoods in other cities put in around the same time- where I would always look first to live.

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