Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA
by umanwizard on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:00AM
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A lot of the Southwest directly contradicts your point: huge, almost endless tracts of suburbia with no urban core whatsoever. Phoenix (4.7MM people in the metro area, virtually no downtown) is the quintessential example.
Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA
by tjr225 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:12AM
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I've never really been to the Southwest so that would be something I haven't experienced. It sounds a lot different than the suburbia I am accustomed to in other parts of the country.
Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA
by umanwizard on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:35AM
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For what it’s worth there are plenty of jobs in Phoenix. They’re just dispersed throughout the giant mass of suburbs rather than being located “downtown”.
Statistically, we are as a society, drifting closer to urban cores. I too dream of buying 50 acres in the midwest for about 100k or so - so don't get me wrong I get the appeal. It's just more or less not what is happening.
> And one could reasonably describe the whole trend of suburbanization as people moving to the middle of nowhere,
I disagree with this. Suburbanization is a way for people to live close to urban centers with the employment prospects (although with a commute, contributing to congestion, emissions), without the benefits (and negatives) of living in an urban core. I have never been to a suburb that is in the middle of nowhere...if it was it wouldn't be sub-urban.