I’m about an hour out from the nearest city, in a suburban area. I’m closer to the boonies than anything like New York City or Chicago.
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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI’m guessing in a big city, like NYC or LA.
PineRune@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“1h from the nearest city”
“suburban area”
What? How? I has questions…
AmyAye@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
Have you been to large cities? I bet you can drive an hour from actual Chicago and still be in the suburbs of Chicago. For example. And not cross over farm lands either.
chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
When traffic is bad, you can drive for an hour in LA and still be in the same neighborhood.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
European here. That concept is really alien to me: if I drive 1h in some direction (assuming I’m not just stuck in traffic) I’m somewhere else, some other city, region, maybe even a different country.
Maybe the gaps between the towns/cities have closed, and it’s just buildings everywhere now, but they were separate at some point and that still shows in how streets, schools, etc are organized - like smaller hubs that expanded until they fused, but not like some tree where every year there’s more and more rings around the central core…
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Tbf in Atlanta 1h from the city is IN the city.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I feel like sub-urban has lost meaning.
If closer to the boonies than a city, you’re no longer sub-urban. Though does rural count as country town, or just farm, or both?
PineRune@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wikipedia defines it as:
an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city.
I’d say it’s a very fit definition of where I’m at. Most people commute to the metropolitan areas which are mostly manufacturing, and can reliably commute to the nearest city by car.
Glowstick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m in nyc and 25 is definitely not the norm.