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Originally Posted by BigCity76
For LI North Shore, right off the top of my head I would look at Great Neck, Manhasset and Oyster Bay.
I would add Roslyn, Old Bethpage, and Brookville.
For the South Shore of Long Island I would add some of the 5 Towns, such as Hewlett, Cedarhurst, Woodmere/North Woodmere, and Lawrence. Atlantic Beach has some very nice sections as well.
There’s this place off the coast called Beverly Hills that you might want to check out? Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Brentwood, and Los Feliz, to name a few, would like to get in on this conversation as well.
Most of the places you named are located within the city of LA...in fact, they all are, outside of Beverly Hills
My wife is from the the burbs of NYC (Westchester Co) and I’ll still take LA over NYC. A lot (or should I say most) of the really nice suburbs (or exurbs more like it) are a hike from NYC. In LA they’re literally right in the middle of the action.
Every major city will have no shortage of really nice suburbs. In some they’re farther out from the city center, others are closer.
Is this really true? I don’t consider most of central and northern NJ to be a hike from nyc, and I feel the same way about parts of Nassau County and Westchester county.
Also the city of LA from my understandings is larger than NYC in square miles and also very car dependent.
Isn’t a suburb a location that is outside the city limits?
Is there a reason D.C. is winning this poll. I've read people on this forum dinging it for it's lack of Old Railroad suburbs. Perhaps the voters don't care about that.
Probably driven by people who have been to Arlington or Alexandria a handful of times (at most), while ignoring the rest of the metro
Post #11 offered a perfect explanation as to why NYC should be crushing this poll.
People on this forum like dense suburbs with pretensions of urbanity of which D.C. has a good few strewn across the landscape. A good number of them are also pretty wealthy, so meet all your generic QOL markers that many people look for.
My personal issue is that I'm not really into the faux urbanity of suburbia - if I move to the suburbs I want the suburbs, not a gentrified generic version of a city. I want space, a slower pace, fewer crowds, less mingling. If you want bars and happening nightlife districts, if you want to pick up 25 year olds for brief encounters, if you want masses of people moving around, busy public buildings and all that...that's what a city is for.
That gripe aside, structurally the problem is they rarely actually fit into the landscape and not a ton of planning has occurred to integrate these different settlements with each other. The suburban sphere is pretty much all over the place in terms of vibe but also appearance. You have some of the ugliest deserts of freeway interchanges and strip malls I've seen here, and they might be right next to a quiet SFH neighborhood, but there's a couple new apartment towers right across and a fancy new Whole Foods or Target in the ground floor. It's like an old small town got half-converted to a post-war suburb which then got half-converted into an edge city and then some new urbanism-inspired mixed use developments got added on. The different eras and stages of American 20th/21st century urban and suburban development got all piled on top of each other chaotically as the area developed in spurts of growth.
Just on the weekend I drove down Richmond Highway past all the new developments along what they now call "National Landing" and at first you see the ugly 1960s/70s brutalism of Crystal City then you hit the new apartment buildings and stores (which will look just as ugly in another 20 years once the 'new building' veneer is off) and on the other side you still got all the old garages, warehouses and stuff from when that area was just kind of a crappy low-value commercial zone on the edge of Alexandria. The D.C. area is full of that kind of ugly dissonance.
Post #11 offered a perfect explanation as to why NYC should be crushing this poll.
Yeah, if you're talking about a "collection of suburbs," then I don't see how Boston, Chicago, DC or Philly would beat out NYC. LA might have the best "suburb" overall in Malibu but I wouldn't say it has a better collection either.
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