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Selling the Suburbs

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A new marketing campaign aims to draw residents back to the "inner-ring" suburbs of Philadelphia. The campaign aims to inform the home buying public about the many benefits of returning to the older suburbs, or Classic Towns as the campaign has branded the cities, that have been abandoned in the past few decades in favor of larger homes farther from the city. According to the campaign, the benefits of inner-ring living include walkable neighborhoods, shorter commutes to the city, as well as more affordable housing then that which is available within city limits.

What do you think? Are inner-ring suburbs a good alternative to the expensive city and the inconvenient, ecologically unfriendly outer-ring suburbs?
Screaming4Change

1 responses // Selling the Suburbs

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    The price of gas makes driving in from anywhere more than ten miles out unattractive. And, very few of these suburban magnet campaigns ever herald the green (both ecological and economic) advantages of public transportation.

    Meanwhile, with the decimation of the housing bubble and the ever pressing mortgage crisis, property in the inner city has just become very affordable and abundantly available, conveniently close to work and an established infrastructure, with an attractive tax base. I forsee an end to the bane of the urban sprawl to which these inner rings of social ecapism once perpetuated by the dying middle class once cravenly contributed.

    96thdayofrage

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