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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
The 'cookie cutter houses 5 feet away from each other' comments don't make any sense. People in a cookie cutter house are still 4'8" further away from the neighbours than a person in a cookie cutter apartment or condo is, so you can't really hack on how close they are together.
Bla bla bla... I don't like the urban sprawl or the direction (literally) this city is going any more than anyone else does, but the whole "downtown people are cultured, people in the suburbs are morons with nothing to do" thing really peels my banana.
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I don't think anyone's saying that people downtown are more 'cultured', btu aside from financial reasons if you're starting up a family and are on a tight budget with no options, why would anyone want to live in an unoriginal structure that's no different from anybody else's house and have to spend too much time on the road commuting everywhere?
For as much time as people spend at home these days, you'd think you'd want your place of residence to be a creative outlet that you can express yourself through architecturally. The only thing that would 'peel my banana' is knowing that the only major difference between my neighbor on my left and on my right is my time that I spend between 9 and 5... and even then that might not even be true.
Atleast there's heaps more diversity and access to all nodes this city has to offer if you're in a central location. And, you really don't have to own a vehicle if this is where you live, which is a plus for the environment. You can just take public transit, since this is where most of the transit routes eminate from.
Rouge, I'm not saying you're wrong... but people who live in the suburbs ARE 'morons who have nothing to do'... that's how the emo movement unfortunately started.
