Seattle Times (AP), Singles give up city life for the suburbs:
Experts say that single people her age, traditionally urban dwellers, are increasingly eschewing city life for picket fences, large parks and chain restaurants.
Seattle Times (LA Times) California home prices fostering a new breed of extreme commuters
Like thousands of other California workers, Ann Inman spends more than two hours getting to work, trekking westward from her suburban dream house to a high-paying job closer to the urbanized coast.
Chain restaurants and two hour commutes. These people are crazy.
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1 erin // Oct 1, 2006 at 1:03 pm
I don’t think these people are crazy — they’re forced to go to these measures because urban housing prices are so far out of their reach. If housing in the city cost the same as in the suburbs, I’m sure a lot of people would opt to for the proximity to work and culture that urban living can provide. But that’s just not the reality of the real estate market.
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