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Yep. I lived in Reston, Fairfax County, VA for a couple of years and absolutely hated it. Very sprawling and low-density and autocentric, yet Reston was somehow supposed to be one of the hip, urban(ish) suburbs of the DC Metro Area? I now pay FAR less to live in the heart of Pittsburgh, a walkable thriving major city, and I couldn't be happier.
Idk. I wouldn't really consider Reston "hip". It's where high income suburbanites go to pay $2100 for a 1BR and work for some random government contractor in an uninspiring high rise building in Reston Town Center or Herndon. It's essentially Tysons 2.0 - I'd say Arlington and Alexandria are hip. Once you go out west to Reston or Tysons it's just typical cookie-cutter suburbia with random high rise buildings, McMansions and Teslas.
What distinguished it — and Columbia, MD — from the rest of the suburbs in the DC/Baltimore constellation were that they were planned-from-the-ground-up "new towns" that were supposed to be self-contained in some way.
IDK if Reston had anything one might call a "town center" the way Columbia did. Did it?
And come to think of it, I'd be hard pressed to refer to anything in the DMV as "hip." Washington still being a company town of sorts, tech growth be damned, and given that those whose lives depend on that company tend to be rather self-important, hipness is sort of anathema to those people. H Street NE may come close now, however.
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?
Right - and what NYC suburbs do better than any in the country is appreciate their electrified connection to regular running quality commuter rail. This is something that LA severely lacks compared to NYC.
Not on the list, but I found Clevelands inner ring suburbs to be hugely underrated and fantastically walkable/transit oriented. In fact, places like Lakewood, Shaker Heights, and Cleveland Heights are among the few suburbs I've been to where I've noticed a huge number of kids walking and biking to and from school which is an indicator of a healthy quality of life for all ages. Shaker Heights and Shaker Square are basically model suburbs with good transit/rail connections to downtown with schools within an easy 10 minute walk of neighborhoods and a well connected network of parks and greenways accessible to most homes by foot.
Just saw this and I wholeheartedly agree.
I believe (if I’m not mistaken.) Shaker Heights was the first master planned community in the country by the railroad barons Van Sweringen brothers. Some poster up thread mentioned the beauty of “the inner ring suburbâ€, I just immediately thought of Shaker Heights. We lived there for a year, the Covid quarantine year no less, but yes there were many kids biked, ran, played and walked on the streets, you could walk to the grocery stores/restaurants…etc. It’s not just the walkability, the city imposes very strict zoning law on the appearance of streets, exterior appeal, and how your house needs to be cohesive and in harmony with your neighbors’. I’m not sure how many other cities have the same, but in Shaker you don’t put your trash cans in the front curb, the city sends a little vehicle swiftly going to your backyard picking them up like a little robot sneaking around because the city doesn’t want the look of the trash cans ruining the street look.
For architecture lovers Shaker Heights/Cleveland Heights/University Heights (The Heights as the locals call.) satisfying me so much with the blocks after blocks of old, storied, grand and opulent Georgian, Neoclassical, Tudor, Colonial, Victorian, Cape Cod….style houses.-which really reflected Cleveland’s past glory.
A lot of so called trash cities have some amazing suburbs ironically. I always heard good things about the suburbs of Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis and Philly
A lot of so called trash cities have some amazing suburbs ironically. I always heard good things about the suburbs of Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis and Philly
A lot of so called trash cities have some amazing suburbs ironically. I always heard good things about the suburbs of Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis and Philly
A lot of so called trash cities have some amazing suburbs ironically. I always heard good things about the suburbs of Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis and Philly
Really?
Philadelphia isn't a trash city... and yes, it does have great suburbs.
Which burbs of Baltimore are nice? I mean there are some but I don't know about many.
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I now pay FAR less to live in the heart of Pittsburgh, a walkable thriving major city, and I couldn't be happier.
