Comments on: The exurbs: The natural habitat of the telecommuter?

By: sim

sim — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:38:44 +0000

A mid-sized city for me, too. It’s important to have all the general services present and not too far away, but would also be good to get away from the prices and congestion of big cities.

Plus small-to-mid-sized cities surrounded by farms are in the best position to transition to a more self-sustaining relocalized model.

By: Will Kriski

Will Kriski — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:08:29 +0000

yes exactly! all this talk of urban sprawl, transportation is moot. I moved from Calgary to the country just outside of a small town (Sackville, New Brunswick). While most people around here farm, and burn their own wood for heat, I’m in a beautiful country home and work on remote IT projects.

Imagine the change in housing price distribution as people can live pretty much anywhere.

By: Roland

Roland — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:37:05 +0000

I live on 5 wooded acres in the boonies of a western US state. 7 miles to a town of 5,000, with a sheriff’s deputy available 24/7. Volunteer FD: 2 miles away. Day medical clinic, but 24/7 ambulance to hospital 40 miles away. Bandwidth: fixed wireless 1.5M/750K. Decent public library. And this is the poorest county in the state. So, trollcall, I guess you could live in the boonies too.

By: Catherine Azzarello

Catherine Azzarello — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:44:08 +0000

Tuscany.

By: trollCall

trollCall — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:25:06 +0000

I’d live in a place where there were a minimum of 24 hour fire, police, and hospital services available. That might require I live in a mid-size city, but I wouldn’t want to be in a large city over the long-term.