How many of you want to work in a city?

[fancymylotus]

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I'm telling you. Where I grew up was perfect. 32 miles from my parents house to the city. Sort of in a valley near the Catskills. Looks like youve driven hours away from all things insane and chaotic, but really, its super close to get to anywhere you might need. Ridiculous restaurants, ridiculous school districts, ridiculous cost of living to go along with it. Bubble world! I love it.

 

[fancymylotus]

The problem is that it's so unreachable. It's not even the 1%, it's the .01%. Even on a specialist's income I don't think I will ever be able to afford that.

You dont even know where I'm talking about! How do you know you wont be able to afford it?

 

[WinslowPringle]

My point was that there are multiple corner pubs here, like 3 within a half block. We don't have to go to the pub, because the pubs come to us.

Also, if you grab a beer while you are driving to the grocery store, you get arrested for drunk driving. Which is another thing city dwellers never worry about, because we don't drive.

City dwellers don't drive? Where does all the traffic in LA come from?

 

[fancymylotus]

City dwellers don't drive? Where does all the traffic in LA come from?

Ew, LA. What a cesspool.

 

[WingedOx]

City dwellers don't drive? Where does all the traffic in LA come from?

No one drove in New York. Too much traffic.

 

[Mass Effect]

This is such a bleak and depressing outlook on life and lifestyle. Is all this driving (and rearranging your life to accommodate the almighty auto) really how the rest of America lives? It sounds like the car is getting the pampered life and the people exist to serve it, instead of the other way around.

I'm a middle aged family guy living in a city, and I've been thinking about all the stuff I've done with my little son recently: listen to a jazz concert, watch a magic show, grab a beer from one of the corner pubs, watch a parade. But here's the kicker- all of that happened yesterday evening (a Thursday) on the three block walk to the grocery store. We don't have to drive for two hours to do stuff, because in the city it comes to us. Sure we do own a car, but I only fill it with gas once a year.

IMAX, stage theaters, shops, hundred of restaurants, hell even the professional sports and museums (we have subscriptions to both) are all within a six block radius. Leave the car at home. City life is family friendly, accessible, and mighty convenient, as long as you aren't on the outside looking in.

Some of you really need to get out more. What's bleak and depressing is that you're a middle-aged man with such a narrow viewpoint of life.

When I read his post, it was all about drive here drive there park here park there.

Oh, and reading more carefully couldn't hurt either as there was one sentence devoted to parking.

 

[deleted500612]

When I read his post, it was all about drive here drive there park here park there. Then the post ragged on cities because it was difficult to drive and there was no place to park. The approach to cities was all wrong. The fact that it is difficult to drive in a city is irrelevant to a city dweller because we are always walking.

You know, earlier today I saw an ad on my fb for a luxury apartment downtown Toronto for $2 million. 1800sq. ft. Parking spots: zero. I laughed. As someone who has spent the greater part of a decade walking or taking transit everywhere, and carrying goddamn groceries home in the snow, that sort of thing doesn't appeal to me as a lifestyle, sorry but that's not why I invested my best years cooped up in a room with a text book. I have no desire to have a beer on my way to the grocery store either, who does that anyway?

Paradoxically, the only reason you are always walking is because you can't viably drive when you live downtown, just as I pointed out. Sure it is true that a lot of stuff is within perfectly comfortable walking distance when you live dt, but if there was free parking and open roads I guarantee you would not be carrying your groceries home 3 blocks in a snow storm by choice. Not to mention what happens when you *gasp* want to do something that is outside walking distance from your apartment? You see, I can go wherever the hell I want, visit whoever I want, and do it in comfort and in style. Visit family in another city, check out a national park, or spend a day on the beach? No problem. I can even drive to your city centre and do everything you do, it just takes longer. You on the other hand are relegated to only doing things and visiting people that are within the limits of the small world you have delineated for yourself as the 10 block walking-radius bubble around your apartment. What are you going to do if you want to go somewhere else? It becomes extremely inconvenient. I guess this is why I'm not surprised that I have met an astonishing number of people from downtown Toronto and NYC who simply don't go anywhere else, they quite literally have never even been outside their own city limits. It sounds to me like people rearrange their lives far more to accommodate living in the big city than the rest of us plebeians do to "accommodate the almighty auto".

 

[Cinclus]

I grew up and went to college in the suburbs of a mid-sized city. I am doing med school in one the largest cities in the country, and I cannot wait to get out. One year, one year...

Location will absolutely be my primary consideration when choosing programs to apply to and composing my ROL. I am dying for good outdoor activities that are nearby. I currently have to drive at least an hour to hit outdoor stuff that isn't downright awful, and it's still not exactly hiking, in my book. It's a 3-4 hour drive for "real" hiking. Gimme mountains and space and lighter traffic, please. I don't care if I ever set foot in a shopping mall or movie theater again. I don't dine out much. I practically never visit bars or clubs, nor do I enjoy it when I do. I don't really do much of anything that necessitates being in a city. I am OK with being in a smaller to mid-sized city as long as I can escape easily to wide open spaces and do the things I enjoy.

 

[MedWonk]

Ew, LA. What a cesspool.

I dunno. I kinda like the idea of being able to drive everywhere, even if the traffic kinda sucks. Probably why I want to get out of the Northeast for residency.

 

[Lucca]

City dwellers don't drive? Where does all the traffic in LA come from?

They are just bots. Procedurally generated by the matrix.

 

[Psai]

They are just bots. Procedurally generated by the matrix.

they need to upgrade the software because i haven't seen a single driver that actually knows how to drive in LA
as soon as you even think about touching your turn signal, 3 people drive up to box you in so you can't get to where you need to go

at least in new york, people only screw you over when they're trying to get to where they're going as quickly as possible
in LA, people screw you over just to screw you over when you're all just sitting in traffic anyway despite having 5 lanes available on your side

 

[Lucca]

they need to upgrade the software because i haven't seen a single driver that actually knows how to drive in LA
as soon as you even think about touching your turn signal, 3 people drive up to box you in so you can't get to where you need to go

at least in new york, people only screw you over when they're trying to get to where they're going as quickly as possible
in LA, people screw you over just to screw you over when you're all just sitting in traffic anyway despite having 5 lanes available on your side

I did not spend too much time in NYC but isn't this literally all of the time? I had a guy beat on my taxi window and yell obscenities at me just because I was first in the taxi line and he wanted to skip the whole thing.

But ya LA is a cesspool.

 

[WinslowPringle]

They are just bots. Procedurally generated by the matrix.

I knew it!

I grew up and went to college in the suburbs of a mid-sized city. I am doing med school in one the largest cities in the country, and I cannot wait to get out. One year, one year...

Location will absolutely be my primary consideration when choosing programs to apply to and composing my ROL. I am dying for good outdoor activities that are nearby.

Yeah, location was a *huge* factor in the programs I applied to.....no cities >250,000 easy commutes, low COL, and quick access to getting away (hiking, hunting, camping, etc.).

 

[fancymylotus]

they need to upgrade the software because i haven't seen a single driver that actually knows how to drive in LA
as soon as you even think about touching your turn signal, 3 people drive up to box you in so you can't get to where you need to go

at least in new york, people only screw you over when they're trying to get to where they're going as quickly as possible
in LA, people screw you over just to screw you over when you're all just sitting in traffic anyway despite having 5 lanes available on your side

yeah this
LA can take their stupid traffic and stupid avocados and DIAF