In Silicon Valley Suburbs, Calls to Limit the Soaring Rents

Re:In Silicon Valley Suburbs, Calls to Limit the Soaring Rents by arbuge on Saturday June 11, 2016 @07:07PM (#11885813)

>> The solution is to build more good US cities that aren't car centric. I'm not aware of any.

NYC is definitely not car-centric or even car-friendly. Indeed, the non-car-centric zone there is considerably larger than SF's. Other cities like Washington DC and Boston are not too different so long as you don't venture too far from downtown.

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Re:In Silicon Valley Suburbs, Calls to Limit the Soaring Rents by hueving on Saturday June 11, 2016 @07:15PM (#11885843)

The weather and people there are crap if you're used to the west coast. Winters suck and the rudeness of NYC people is insufferable in the long run for me.

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Re:In Silicon Valley Suburbs, Calls to Limit the Soaring Rents by alasdair_ on Saturday June 11, 2016 @07:52PM (#11885955)

Portland and Seattle are both excellent cities to live in if you want a car free existence on the west coast.

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Re:In Silicon Valley Suburbs, Calls to Limit the Soaring Rents by johan_larson on Saturday June 11, 2016 @08:39PM (#11886106)

Seattle? Downtown maybe. The east side (across Lake Washington) is very suburban, and not particularly suited to car-free living. I lived there car-less for a couple of summers and got into alarmingly good shape biking up and down the eastside hills.

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Re:In Silicon Valley Suburbs, Calls to Limit the Soaring Rents by kcanini on Sunday June 12, 2016 @10:04AM (#11888126)

"alarmingly good shape"

I'm imagining you one day looking down at your body and realizing, "Oh shit, I'm way too fit. Better cut out all this biking!"

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