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Downside and objections to living downtown


GRDadof3

What are the downsides of living downtown currently  

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  1. 1. If you currently live, or are looking at living downtown, what is lacking? (Choose as many as you want)

    • Prices are too high for what you get
      37
    • Lack of retail amenities downtown
      56
    • Lack of parks or recreation downtown
      9
    • I have to own a car
      23
    • Lack of good mass transit
      40
    • Too much crime or too many vagrants
      14
    • Lack of night life
      4
    • Lack of good housing choices (I don't like what's available)
      10
    • No housing in the part of downtown I like
      3
    • Lack of people living downtown
      16
    • Worried about the investment
      11
    • I'm worried about selling my current house
      6
    • Nothing, downtown is great as is
      5
    • Other
      12
  2. 2. Are one or more of these causing you to:

    • not buy downtown
      38
    • move out of downtown
      2
    • Neither, downtown is fine as is
      6
    • I'm buying or staying downtown, but addressing these issues would be good
      34
    • Other
      13


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For the first question, one of my responses was "other" because of the lack of jobs. Granted that can be a much bigger issue than the city itself can fix, but it caused me to leave the state. With school loans to pay, I couldn't stick around a city that had no jobs in my field. As I said before, I plan on making it back to GR eventually but it'll have to be at least 5-10 years. There's just something about GR that's so unique and charming that I can't let go of. That, and I have too many family members still up there.

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It would appear that the Cingular/AT&T coverage issue in Cherry Hill (a major hassle for me in 2005) and Midtown (2006) has been solved. I don't know where they added an antenna, but that seems to have happened.

Tony, at the Rynerson library you're in a pit of buildings whose ancient bricks serve to block the T-Mobile signal. Try stepping outside, or moving to the openness of the library parking lot.

HTH

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