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Real Highway (RHW) - Development and Support
hogs29 replied to qurlix's topic in NAM & Transit Networks
Wow! This project is incredible! I can only imagine how much effort has gone into this. They really look the part and are add tremendously to the reality factor. -
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Originally posted by: lolebagelsTo me, suburbs are the answer to someone who wants an escape from the city - but needs its comforts and amenities. Although suburbs rarely have a special touch and "atmosphere" to them, like most downtowns do (look at San Francisco, Seattle, NYC), it's a wonderful place for kids. It's easy to get lost in all the hustle of the cities. I have to oppose hogs29, too. It's definitely not true that "nobody knows each other, and couldn't care either." Although I have never lived in a downtown, I know that it's plenty easy to make friends out of suburbian neighbors. quote> I didn't mean to sound like all suburbs are unfriendly. Just the ones where I live, which is probably a main reason why I don't like them. My cousin just bought a house in a Jacksonville suburb, one of those ugly communities with hundreds of homes that are exact duplicates of each other and an obviously fake stream running through it all ending in an obvioulsy fake lake (last I ckecked, natural lakes are never perfectly square). He's already made a lot of friends. But here in the great northeast, it seems like nobody wants to know nothin' from no-one. To be hidiously ugly is bad enough. Winter is even worse because when all the trees are bare you really get a sense for how the town has no personality and how packed in everyone is. top that off with miserable people, and you have northeastern suburbs. Who could possibly ask for more than that? Oh, if you can't already tell, I'm against urban sprawl.
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Originally posted by: Red1530 I am against Suburban Sprawl. I prefer the country where it is peaceful, you know your neighbors, and can see the Milky Way.quote> Couldn't have said it better myself. Unfortunately, here in Connecticut, most of that is going away, and fast. I moved up to the town I'm in now about 10 years ago. Then, it was nice open spaces. Rolling hills, peace and quiet, no constant sound of traffic - only the occasional car every so often. Now, sprawling "communities" where nobody knows each other, and they couldn't care to either. All these new homes look exactly the same, and there's thousands upon thousands of them now. Every big box store chain you can think of is now located on the main strip in town, every fast food joint, and every brand of gas station. Traffic clogs the streets on the weekends as people struggle to get to the local warehouse super-store to buy their 40 pound tubs of mayo and 1000 pack box of instant soup. Nobody likes anyone else, nor do they know anyone else. My commute which 6 years ago was 20 minutes is now a staggering 1 hour. I'm looking to get out, but so are thousands of other people. The ironic part is, the majority of people that now want out are the same people that caused this disgrace by moving here in the first place. They came to escape, and came in such droves and demanding all the things they were used to in non-country life, that they just ended up moving their way of living here.......now they don't like it here and want to leave. Odd thing is, in SC4, I rather like the urban spawl. Figure that one out.
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