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Originally Posted by Sucre
Yet, you cannot compare "downtown" of an American town and the city center of a European. Most people don't want to live downtown in the US while cities centers are extremely looked after in Europe.
On the whole, it is nightmare if you don't have a car in the USA, even in a large town with relatively good PT like in Boston for instance . Not so in Europe and "the not as well developed" makes the difference.
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Sucre on the whole you can't make that generalized statement. Look at large cities like Chicago, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, and a number of others. In fact the verticle housing boom is going great guns in those cities. Why? Because people do in fact want to live there. Now in cities like St. Louis and the next tier of smaller cities you are correct, but then again they do not offer the excitement or amenities that the larger cities offer in their downtown areas.