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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by rm999 on Monday December 21, 2015 @07:01PM (#10774546)
Not to defend suburbs, but a well-designed suburb/exurb let's you access quite a bit in a reasonable amount of time. My old commute from the East Village to Tribeca, both in downtown Manhattan, was about 25-30 minutes by subway with a transfer. In the same time I could walk about half-way to work. This is a pretty normal commute in the densest part of the USA.

In the same time, I could get to a 20-30 mile radius around my parents house in suburban maryland (if my math is correct, this is 1200-2800 square miles). I could drive to downtown Baltimore, or downtown Annapolis, or close to DC.

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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by thrownaway2424 on Monday December 21, 2015 @07:59PM (#10774873)
If your _average_ driving speed from home to work is 60MPH you don't even live in the suburbs. You live in the country. For me, 1800 square miles of country through which one can drive at 60MPH (implying that it's totally depopulated) would not compare favorably with the amenities within half an hour of the East Village.
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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by ceras on Monday December 21, 2015 @10:40PM (#10775655)
It's not quite fair to compare raw distance. Instead, consider comparing number of businesses or people within the East Village 25-30minute radius vs. the Maryland 20-30mile radius. I don't know about your area, but as a current East Village resident there's there's way, way more in that NY radius compared to my hometown's equivalent.
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