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Originally Posted by edale
Right. While LA does have a lot of walkable, traditionally urban areas, it also has a ton of the same stuff that most western cities have-- dense suburban style development. Vegas has nearly twice as many people living in 10k density census tracts than Minneapolis, and four times as many as Pittsburgh. Does anyone really think Vegas is more urban than MSP or Pittsburgh? Not a chance.
Western cities build SFHs at a density that is perplexing from someone from the east coast or midwest. I remember visiting a friend who lived in a gated community in Irvine (  ) and thinking it was going to be this fancy, spacious neighborhood, but in reality it was cookie cutter homes spaced so close to each other you could basically reach out and touch the neighboring home. Of course it was the antithesis of a walkable or urban neighborhood, despite its density. To me, that's kind of the worst of both worlds. You don't get the privacy and space that suburbia is supposed to present, and you also still have to drive everywhere. |
You may have to drive, but because of the density of LA, you're much closer to amenities and things to do compared to 90 percent of America
I lived on nova, and I remember traveling much further for anything compared to la suburbs.
DC suburbs have miles and miles of sfh and barely anything else.
It's not ideal.