los angeles is the only major city i can think of at the moment that is very close to a major body of water but has its downtown located 15 miles inland.
― omar little, Monday, 8 November 2010 21:55 (Yesterday)
london, rome
― Adrian Roosevelt "Adie" Mike (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
he specified "major city"
― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
(jokes bruv)
― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i was thinking since those cities had rivers running through them into the nearby seas that those didn't really count.
― omar little, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
there was a river in los angeles, once
― Adrian Roosevelt "Adie" Mike (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
A river of sin and degradation maybe
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
that one's still there afaik
― Adrian Roosevelt "Adie" Mike (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah shot you beat me to it. Comedic timing does not work on the Internet.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
LA's (for the most part) a 20th century city = it didn't build up around water routes for trade/transport the same way that older cities did
― iatee, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
record-breaking zinger's remorse there aerosmith, ruined it for me a little tbh
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry d-mac it's like I have had some of the best times of my life in London so I couldn't let the zing hang around too long
― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I read that zing as rome-only for some reason
― iatee, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
cause I mean...italy
I've only ever been to a tiny little town called Rovereto & I was only there for like 12 hours. then we flew out of Milan but it was like 5 a.m. so the zing was actually secretly only a London dis because all of what I know about Rome ends with the reign of Tiberius.
― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
guess what else...during those 12 hours I didn't have any decent food at all
my experience with Italy sucked tbqf
e wasnt gladeatethere
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
rome is my least favorite city in the world I think
― iatee, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
the parts everyone goes to see are still the greatest things i think i've ever seen, but yeah tbh the rest of it was not pleasant.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-11-14-moving-to-the-suburbs-for-your-kids-think-again
― based lord sotosyn (The Reverend), Monday, 22 November 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
About the AuthorDavid Owen is a staff writer for the New Yorker, a contributing editor to Golf Digest, and a frequent contributor to the Atlantic Monthly. His other books include The First National Bank of Dad, The Chosen One, The Making of the Masters, and My Usual Game. He lives in Washington, Connecticut.
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Monday, 22 November 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
*thinks again, gets in car, laughs at people at the bus stop*
― buzza, Monday, 22 November 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I may read his book, and will probably agree with a lot of it. I just found it amusing that he lives in the middle of nowhere. Guess he isn't crazy about living in urban density himself. I wonder if he commutes to his job in NYC.
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Monday, 22 November 2010 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wikipedia:
Transportation
Route 202 runs east-west in the northern part of town, connecting the villages of Marbledale, New Preston, and Woodville. Route 109 runs east-west near the town's geographic center, connecting Washington Depot with New Milford and Morris. The main north-south highways are Route 47, Route 199, Route 45. There is no public transportation within the Town of Washington.
― iatee, Monday, 22 November 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
iatee can i just say, now that the hubub of this thread has died down, that you were a total right-on trollin' otm bro upthread. i loved what you gave itt
― con suelo, Monday, 22 November 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
:) thx
― iatee, Monday, 22 November 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Was talking with coworkers about how I never really go far outside my neighborhood + downtown outside of work anymore, because I don't have to. They said they really don't go far outside their general suburban areas. The difference being that the places they go are all chains and strip malls. There are some pretty cool local businesses, but you have to go around the giant parking lots and jump from... strip mall to strip mall.
― mh, Monday, 22 November 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/29/AR2010122904445.html
― iatee, Friday, 31 December 2010 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I sometimes think of things - crystal beings - things in the woods.
― Latham Green, Friday, 31 December 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
With fuel prices surging don't u think this trend will reverse?
― infinity rebounding stats (m bison), Friday, 31 December 2010 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean I'm dismayed by the news but not totally surprised.
― infinity rebounding stats (m bison), Friday, 31 December 2010 03:01 (thirteen years ago) link
in the longer-term yeah, I do think it will, but it's amazing how quickly the national recession-era decision making disappeared
― iatee, Friday, 31 December 2010 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
We'll tell our kids of our belt tightening ways, how we trekked to Jennings ford and bought the escape instead of the expedition and how grandma cried that day but we made it
― infinity rebounding stats (m bison), Friday, 31 December 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://persquaremile.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/the-worlds-population-concentrated.png
― max, Saturday, 22 January 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
sprawl owns
― David Warner (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 22 January 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at the houston world sprawltropolis, prob would be a pretty shitty commute
― iatee, Saturday, 22 January 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Why did they keep using South Central for that? Pretty cool.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 22 January 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
was reading something interesting on houston today:
http://austinzoning.typepad.com/austincontrarian/files/ssrnid8372441.pdf
― iatee, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
also fwiw paris density can be misleading cause the political body 'paris' is a very tiny part of the agglomeration vs. nyc, where all 5 boroughs are included in the average. manhattan's denser than paris proper and nyc is denser than the paris + the petite couronne (the 3 very built up urban/suburban departments that surround it).
― iatee, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
are you a town planner or in a related field iatee?
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
if you look at their entire urban areas, Paris is much more dense than NYC.
― the journey you take with bob ross (askance johnson), Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
some of the boroughs at the edge of greater london contain open countryside, which skews the density somewhat, but inner london is probably less densely developed than other major cities
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
haha no I def considered it in college and I have some friends who are but the job market didn't seem worth it. tho I'd jump at any career opportunity in the field that didn't require going back to school. xp
― iatee, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/b1mu2.jpg
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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yeah this^ metro paris is way denser than metro nyc - nyc city limits vs paris metro is not so meaningful a comparison - they are roughly the same size but that just points to the fact that new york is a much larger city than paris - ie dont quit the dayjob lol
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not so meaningful a comparison because nyc city limits still don't really reflect its urban boundaries but it's still a stronger comparison than 'paris' vs 'nyc'.
'metro paris' means whatever you want it to mean, and apparently askance thinks it should mean ile de france but that's kinda ridic if you know anything about the geography of the area.
― iatee, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude, i don't know, I'm just going by numbers on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population
― the journey you take with bob ross (askance johnson), Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
ya maybe that's your problem
― iatee, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean if you want to include 4 states in your 'metro nyc' go for it, but at that point you're not really comparing things that are worth comparing, you're comparing open spaces in connecticut and picardy.
― iatee, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
If you expect me to navigate these dense new metropoli, you'll have to pry my car from my cold dead hands.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
yr just comparing the things that people who professionally compare these things compare pfft
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link