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Wouldn't believe everything one reads, esp when written by often-socialist journalists who tend to live in a dumpy part of some city in a rathole and ride lovely mass transit to get to their highly paid job....
Actually, in past 10yrs, would argue trend has intensified for many of wealthiest, most educated and <40yo to live and work in suburbs, e.g., SiliconValley and Greenwich....and rarely visit the alleged "city"...
Suspect most middle-class families in urban regions prefer a newer, 3K sq ft house on 0.4 ac; good, safe public schools; ability to easily drive one's new Camry/Accord, etc ?20mins to one's office in a suburban office park: the model of life for many in places like Plano, TX; Naperville, IL; Irvine, CA; Cupertino, CA; CherryHill, NJ; Scarsdale, NY, etc etc....
Most families aren't big on nightlife, tourist attractions, skyscrapers and exposure to poverty/violent crime on a daily basis....easy enough to watch/read about all that stuff on one's high-res screen in suburbia somewhere....
this post gave me a good laugh this morning, thanks!
As I said in the Atlanta thread, why are lots of major corporations moving into or returning to downtown from the suburbs in Chicago? And you should really tell all those professionals I see on the train every day (including many from the SUBURBS, especially on Metra) how terrible and shabby public transit is. I mean, you wouldn't want those good family raising people to accidentally encounter some poor person, god forbid!
It is hard to say. The Silicon Valley is only vaguely defined. Palo Alto alone has about 78,000 jobs. Santa Clara has about 125,000. The census bureau defines the Bay Area as having 7.2 million people, of which 3.2 million live in the contigious area with over 1,000 persons per mile ("urban" by their standards). 1.2 million live in the cities of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley. ("urban" by mine, for the most part). Using just those two cities, and figuring proportional geographic representation of workers there should be roughly 32,000 workers who commute from San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.
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