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« on: March 22, 2008, 06:33:44 PM »

Yes.
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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2008, 06:50:20 PM »

no

only people who haven't lived there would say yes.
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2008, 06:57:55 PM »

no

only people who haven't lived there would say yes.
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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2008, 06:58:45 PM »

No, there weren't particularly many in my suburb, and this is Florida we're talking about
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2008, 07:10:57 PM »

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« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2008, 07:42:19 PM »

No, a major reason people move to the burbs is so they can send their kids to school there.  Suburbs have less utility for the elderly, who don't get out as much.
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« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2008, 08:21:45 PM »

Suburbs consistently have young populations with relatively low numbers of elderly people.  The school age population as a percentage of the total population is consistently higher than inner-cities and rural areas.

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« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2008, 08:27:32 PM »

Middle class young to middle-aged families move to the suburbs typically to live comfortably in a nice neighborhood where they don't have to worry about their children getting involved with dangerous activities like talking to black people.

Old people live in the cemetery.
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« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2008, 09:27:28 PM »

Suburbs become too homogenous and it is ultimately bad for them.

Bloomington, MN for example boomed from 5,000 in 1940 to 80,000 in 1970.  In 1970 there were 26,000 students in the schools.  By the mid-80s it was less than half that.

Now the city has a huge number of old people that initially moved in during the 40s and 50s.  As they are aging and moving into nursing homes or dying, the aging housing and infrastructure needs to be updated in order to remain competitive for younger people looking for a place to live.

If they don't jack up the taxes and fix it up, it will ghettoize.  Places like Bloomington are gentrifying.  Places like Brooklyn Center are ghettoizing. 

The anti-tax people just move into the exurbs and live there until the brown people start to move there and then they move further out and keep ghettoizing everywhere htey just left by voting down taxes to improve infrastructure.  You can only get so far away from the center of a city before the whole thing goes into free fall (Detroit, St. Louis).
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« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2008, 10:01:52 PM »

If they don't jack up the taxes and fix it up, it will ghettoize.  Places like Bloomington are gentrifying.  Places like Brooklyn Center are ghettoizing. 

Ha. I might get a job in Brooklyn Center.
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« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2008, 11:43:21 PM »

And the spamming continues.
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« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2008, 12:50:03 AM »

IIRC, BRTD has a warped definition of what is "old" that is based on when you stop listening to emo.
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« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2008, 12:51:19 AM »

IIRC, BRTD has a warped definition of what is "old" that is based on when you stop listening to emo.

Hey, last week I met a guy who is 32 and still wears emo band shirts (He used to be in one too.)
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« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2008, 03:40:50 AM »

IIRC, BRTD has a warped definition of what is "old" that is based on when you stop listening to emo.

Hey, last week I met a guy who is 32 and still wears emo band shirts (He used to be in one too.)

lol.
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« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2008, 03:59:37 AM »

Well they're certaintly old at heart.
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« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2008, 01:23:31 PM »

I LIVE in a suburb xp
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