We walked a couple of blocks for dinner out today. That's awesome. It's true that I don't care for high density, "downtown" living situations. I've never lived in that situation, but that's kind of the point. I grew up in the inner city, and once I got to the 'burbs, I very much preferred it.
But as much as I love the quiet of the suburbs, I would also very much like walking access to restaurants, libraries and groceries. The place we're renting actually has all of that, as the planners of this ridiculous super-development thought it was a good idea to put establishments like that in the center of it all. Granted, a lot of it is empty, and there's apparently a lot of turnover, but I like that it's there. We're fond of an affordable little Irish pub there, and that's where we had dinner.
As much as I don't care for homeowners associations and crazy detailed zoning, I have to say that they did OK with this area. Compared to the average Ohio suburb, the look and design of houses here is so much nicer and less generic. The place that I used to live did have requirements for variations on houses, and it's not terrible, but it's not as nice as this. They have a lot of streets where the garages are in a back alley, and the street fronts have porches, like an older city area. Some of the houses down the street from us remind me a lot of the older Cleveland neighborhoods, in a good way.
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