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Originally Posted by Daradon
Re Polak:
Yeah, but sprawl will still be sprawl whether you live in the inner city or not. You coulda had a house in NW and a job in the SE. That would be even worse.
Living closer to the city on average makes the commute better. Not 100%, but on average. Also containing sprawl lessens everyones commute and infrastructure costs.
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I work in NE and live in the SE but I have two routes I can take that are under 30 minutes in rush hour (Deerfoot and Stony). Before the ring road I would've agreed but these big expensive infrastructure projects really do make life a lot easier for the suburbanites that happen to live near them.
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Originally Posted by Swarly
I have heard this argument many times from different people and I still don't understand what it is I am farther away from than them. People who have said this in the past to me lived in either Evanston, Mahogany, or Cranston. I'm closer to pretty much everything you can imagine than any of them, except maybe the new south campus hospital but I'm not too worried about living near a hospital, maybe once i'm 80... Plus I have the added benefit of walking to work, close to C-train and in the car2go area. I live in Kensington and gladly pay the premium to not sit in my car for an extra 8-12 (even more in bad winter weather) hours a week commuting. I did that and it drove me nuts.
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What do you mean? The point of suburban communities (the good ones at least) is that they are almost self sufficient. They have the grocery stores, bars, restaurants, schools, gas stations and other amenities for the residents that live there. Some of them are obviously better than others.
In the end, it really just depends on the priorities of the buyer. Stuff like the confidence in the ability to pick and choose where you work, importance of space, location of friends/family and how often you go to them, what amenities are important, blah blah blah.
I know I said it in a tongue in cheek manner but I really do understand why people choose to live in the inner city, but for me it just wasn't a good fit, even if there wasn't a premium price for the location.
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oh and living in the same house for the life of your mortgage? who does that.
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Well if Oil doesn't rebound...