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Originally Posted by Klippenstein
Of course there are other factors, but when 4 out of 5 workers who live downtown are commuting out of your downtown to go to work, that doesn't seem like a good sign.
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A good sign of what, though? Everybody and his brother knows that LA is decentralized.
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I would assume the closer you live to your job, the easier it is to support the vibrant urban fabric in the area.
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San Francisco isn't included in your source, but I would argue that the vast majority of San Franciscans live more than a mile from downtown--the Mission, the Castro, etc. In only one out of the 25 years that I lived in San Francisco proper did I live within one mile of my job. Is SF not vibrant or urban?
Also, note that NYC, Philly, Boston, Chicago, etc. have large metro and commuter rail networks to move people between where they live and where they work. That's because people don't generally work where they live.
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Like I said, I don't know LA that well. I know things are done differently there. So I'm happy to be informed how this works out in terms of vibrancy.
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I'm happy to engage, but you need to define your terms. To me, the entire Los Angeles metropolis is vibrant.