[quote=briansd1][quote=AN] While single or married w/ no kids, we want to live in the city, but once you have kids, most will tell you they’ll give up their city life for a yard and suburban schools.[/quote]
The thing is that America doesn’t have city life. Except for New York, and a few other places, it’s a blur of city and suburban life.
I mean, is living in Mission Valley really living in the city? Not in my opinion.
In the rest of the world, the demarcation between city and suburb is much greater.[/quote]
Agreed, brian. MM, where AN resides is an example of city/suburban life. For many years, MM AND SR were the “last bastions” in the northern part of the City with MM built up as tracts on small urban lots. For that reason, MM life is a combination of city and suburban existence.
Mission Valley is a dense multifamily/com’l area built-up on a “Type A” floodplain with tons of shored-up landfill using “glass breakwater” and other techniques which we all “hope” doesn’t fail in the event of a BIG FLOOD of the SD River :={
MV is NOT really “urban” at all in the true sense of the word, is not very walkable, has no real “culture” and very little “character,” lol.
SD DOES have a “city life” but it is confined to dtn, Gaslamp, East Village, Hillcrest, Balboa Park and nearby surrounds.
