• Jiral@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Funfact: If you build cities like it, walkable nice urban neighbourhoods, attractive for young families and others alike, can be perfectly affordable.

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    Sometimes it can happen, depending on your lifestyle. I work in tech and live alone. I come from a rural town of 7000 people. When I was a teenager in the 90ies, I wanted to live in a group of towers of a trendy neighborhood in my province’s biggest city. They are connected to an underground mall with a grocery store, a cinema, a pharmacy, multiple restaurants, etc… To me it seemed prestigious and useful to be able to live in a place without going outside for errands.

    Ten years later I moved into that city but in a peripheral neighborhood. Then another few years later, I needed to move again and ended up in a tower near the ones I wanted to live in when I was a teenager. I didn’t even realize it at first. I just needed a place to live. But one day while coming back from the grocery store and exiting the tower complex, I realized that I wanted to live there twenty odd years ago, and now I go shop there while living two streets away.

    But now that I traveled a bit more in the recent years, there are other places in the world where I have this feeling of “I could/I want to live there” and I know it’s probably not going to be possible. Also, as nice and tempting as other countries and cities are, it’s already not easy to find a place to live in your own country right now, let alone in a desirable neighborhood of another country.

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        There’s a pretty wide sidewalk physically separated from the road, with tree coverage to help with shade. You could miss it at first glance though

        Buses also get separate lanes so at least some thought has been put into public transit

        It’s pretty walkable for a big north American city imo

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    3 days ago

    I said this recently when visiting Brooklyn. Place felt like home to me, but I know my ass could never afford it.

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      It’s got a rough reputation, but even without a real yard, I believe I could get by in one of those humble old brownstones. If it was good enough for Arthur Miller to struggle in…I’d find a way to get by.

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    4 days ago

    I spent a couple days in Chicago last year. Roughed it out in a park overnight. Went to the beach the next day. Spent more time on Amtrak than I did in Chicago for the whole trip. My body felt like death the whole time, but I had the best mental high I’ve had in years. My whole life goal is to move there now.

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    3 days ago

    Can’t say I’ve done that. Went to Boston for a work trip, spent the weekend exploring. Nice city, I can see the charm and why people would want to live there. But it also wasn’t a place I’d want to live in.

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      You should have visited 10-15 years ago when It was a lot cooler.

      Before all the bio/tech bros came and kicked out all the small businesses and diversity.

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      I get it, man. Urban/suburban life is not for me. Cities are fun to visit.

      I also don’t think I could do island life beyond visiting. Loved my visit to the Hawaiian islands, but I’d lose my mind living there.