Real Estate/Development
Apr. 30, 2014
Who's really moving back to the big city?
There is more to urban home life than proximity to trendy purveyors of haute cuisine and a latte-dispensing Starbucks within walking distance of your digs.
Once upon a time, when I was a young gossoon, it was an article of faith that the American dream meant a detached, single-family home in the suburbs, with a lawn in front and a swing set in back, in a community where kids could play, ride their bikes and walk to school without fear of being robbed of their lunch money, or worse. But for the past few years we have been getting the new urbanists' party line that suburbs are icky and passe, and that enlightened folks are abandoning them and...
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