My answer is basically anything but the suburbs. I grew up in the suburbs and live there again. I hate it. I lived in the country for some time and I liked it quite a lot honestly. If the political attitudes were better I’d never feel fully inclined to leave.
As I’m afraid of driving in basically any environment where I can expect cars to be around in great number, the only way I can see myself driving around regularly is if I’m basically in the absolute middle of nowhere. If the area is actually properly populated, I’d basically need things to be hyper-walkable and ideally transit-oriented as well. If I could help it I’d get to 100% of my destinations purely by walking. I don’t actually enjoy any mode of transit that’s not my own two feet, I find all the alternatives rather alienating.
My dream location is literally just a fantasy and nothing presently attainable, but it’d be like… a heavily forested and uber-dense smaller city or town with everything I could ever want or need basically within walking distance, if not basically or literally in the same building (imagine an uber-woke Whittier Alaska for that scenario I guess). There’d be like common’s areas where a bunch of food is grown and there’s an expectation that you should pitch-in and take what you need. Very little space is given to cars as far as infrastructural accommodation go, and it’s not expected you own a personal car, tho some are kept around for various purposes that we deem fit. You look around and mostly see foot travel. Maybe the odd bicycle or push scooter. Rewilded nature is most of what you see outside of town limits, if not all of it.
idk maybe like Ithaca New York or Eugene Oregon or something if I’m tryna be more realistic 🤷♀️
You need to look at New England, more specifically Western Massachusetts and Vermont. Pretty much the only part of the country where rural doesn’t mean conservative (it’s actually super left-leaning there). Find I-91 (highway that runs North-South) and look along there, towns like Brattleboro, VT, Greenfield, MA, and Northampton, MA are exactly what you want.
My answer is basically anything but the suburbs. I grew up in the suburbs and live there again. I hate it. I lived in the country for some time and I liked it quite a lot honestly. If the political attitudes were better I’d never feel fully inclined to leave.
As I’m afraid of driving in basically any environment where I can expect cars to be around in great number, the only way I can see myself driving around regularly is if I’m basically in the absolute middle of nowhere. If the area is actually properly populated, I’d basically need things to be hyper-walkable and ideally transit-oriented as well. If I could help it I’d get to 100% of my destinations purely by walking. I don’t actually enjoy any mode of transit that’s not my own two feet, I find all the alternatives rather alienating.
My dream location is literally just a fantasy and nothing presently attainable, but it’d be like… a heavily forested and uber-dense smaller city or town with everything I could ever want or need basically within walking distance, if not basically or literally in the same building (imagine an uber-woke Whittier Alaska for that scenario I guess). There’d be like common’s areas where a bunch of food is grown and there’s an expectation that you should pitch-in and take what you need. Very little space is given to cars as far as infrastructural accommodation go, and it’s not expected you own a personal car, tho some are kept around for various purposes that we deem fit. You look around and mostly see foot travel. Maybe the odd bicycle or push scooter. Rewilded nature is most of what you see outside of town limits, if not all of it.
idk maybe like Ithaca New York or Eugene Oregon or something if I’m tryna be more realistic 🤷♀️
You need to look at New England, more specifically Western Massachusetts and Vermont. Pretty much the only part of the country where rural doesn’t mean conservative (it’s actually super left-leaning there). Find I-91 (highway that runs North-South) and look along there, towns like Brattleboro, VT, Greenfield, MA, and Northampton, MA are exactly what you want.
ur actually cooking with that I-91 recommendation 😳🤯 holy fuck thank you
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Without a doubt naz. Without a doubt lol