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Originally posted by Moridin:
I beg to differ on this point! I agree that the center of any city is expensive to live in, due mainly to the competition of business which can afford land space and residential that cannot! However, if you look outside the actual downtown area and just go out one or two miles it is a vastly different story! Take Minneapolis for example. We have housing in downtown, expensive but not terribly so...but if you travel just 1.5 miles from the center of downtown you are in the middle of the least expensive place to live in the entire metropolitan area! A four bedroom house costs about $100,000 in this area compared to a 4 bedroom in the suburbs for more like $250,000! If you want to bring economics into it, it is actually more expensive to live in the suburbs.
One of our local newspapers did a one-week special look at Urban Sprawl here in the Twin Cities...it is a very well written and well researched article. Here are some excerpts from why urban sprawl exists (and yes it is mainly due to the car!)
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Moridin, Minneapolis is still way cheaper than Manhattan. People generally want to be close to their work. I'm glad that we agree that the thing that
allows urban sprawl is the car!
The same is true for most major world cities. If heaps of people wanted to "get away from it all" New Zealand would be overcrowded instead of having 3.5 million people. Why are more and more New Zealanders leaving their beautiful paradisial home? (Perhaps Azurewolf can answer this.)
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