City vs Suburb Living - Page 2

[Piglet68]

Originally posted by Leatherette
Our rule of big city living: live near the zoo and the "gay neighborhood", and all will be well.

LOL! I remember reading an article that basically said that cities with the greatest economic growth and highest "creativity index" are those that have an over-representation of gays. Or, as my DH likes to say, they have the highest "hipness factor".

(here's the link to the article)

[dado]

there is no doubt about it, economic vitality and thriving gay population are amazingly well correlated.

http://diversity.monster.com/gale/articles/divboost/
http://www.creativeclass.org/map_cdi.htm

[IdentityCrisisMama]

I didn’t read all the posts but I have a suggestion. Have you considered a small-ish town? To me small towns (not one main street small, morel like small-city small) are a great alternative to suburbia, which I would not, not like to live in. We’re in Europe now and the alternative to suburbia here is small towns all over the place. What I like better about them is that they’re self-sufficient. Does that make sense?

I loved Santa Cruz, although we left because there are big issues there that made it a bad place for us to settle in.

[DebraBaker]

Both of those articles were extremely interesting.

Thanks for posting the links.

db