I think people often get exhausted with cities at a certain age. I’m starting to want to sacrifice all that I like about the city over the crowdedness and general rudeness you observe while adjacent to so many people.
I have been pretty lucky with really great neighbors so my trend has been the opposite as I age. Like when I was in college I was sorta like. I could really live here if there was only jobs out here. Now its like man, I really like not needing to drive.
Yeah, I hate driving. I wish that in my (very walkable) city, I didn’t have to, but I do sometimes. Today was a rough start due to having to drive around town.
I have to because we are outside of it now but when we could live there I could do anything without driving. We are just close enough that I can get to most places without driving but it takes much more work planning it out and is more of a pain overall.
I have a dream of living somewhere that at most requires me to bike 20 minutes while rarely/never driving. But I also want a place that isn’t super crowded and I can have a garden. Tall order, I know.
Well the country thing is a more recent phenomenon. I have been hearing about how everyone is leaving the state since the 80’s and it became a political bs talking point. We should be empty by now with the way they have talked over the decades.
oh yeah. every time I see that type of stuff I assume there is some bs around it. I’ll believe it when high rises start looking deserted like malls.
It’s both things. People like me are headed out to the country, most others are just piling up in the cities.
Yeah, eventually I’ll move out of the city too, but overall as you said the trend is more people moving to cities
I mean this is a little surprising given wfh thing. You would think the trend would be reveresed. Personally I like a metro system.
I think people often get exhausted with cities at a certain age. I’m starting to want to sacrifice all that I like about the city over the crowdedness and general rudeness you observe while adjacent to so many people.
I have been pretty lucky with really great neighbors so my trend has been the opposite as I age. Like when I was in college I was sorta like. I could really live here if there was only jobs out here. Now its like man, I really like not needing to drive.
Yeah, I hate driving. I wish that in my (very walkable) city, I didn’t have to, but I do sometimes. Today was a rough start due to having to drive around town.
I have to because we are outside of it now but when we could live there I could do anything without driving. We are just close enough that I can get to most places without driving but it takes much more work planning it out and is more of a pain overall.
I have a dream of living somewhere that at most requires me to bike 20 minutes while rarely/never driving. But I also want a place that isn’t super crowded and I can have a garden. Tall order, I know.
Well the country thing is a more recent phenomenon. I have been hearing about how everyone is leaving the state since the 80’s and it became a political bs talking point. We should be empty by now with the way they have talked over the decades.