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Commuter town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Exurbs - Definition of Exurbs at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Exurbs. Look it up now! ... Use exurbs in a Sentence...
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Liberals blame the exurbs for reelecting President Bush in 2004. Conservationists blame them for spoiling the landscape with ugly sprawls of look-alike houses and promoting wasteful lifestyles. Supporters of exurbs see a much different picture.
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Despite the hullabaloo from political analysts, media, and local growth activists, just 6 percent of large metro area residents live in an exurb, and these exurbs vary from affordable housing havens, to ranchettes for the wealthy, to hopscotch project ... Midwestern exurbs contain 2.6 million people, about one-fourth of...
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Those two towns probably deserve a break from the traffic, but the DOT's plans for the bypass also include adding 2-4 lanes to I-5 where the bypass meets it, effectively encouraging more people to drive that route....I would imagine, more people from the metro area, rather than from the exurbs.
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By contrast, the automobile-dependent Washington exurbs and even inner-ring suburbs have seen dramatic drops in housing prices. ... We know the next generation of exurbs is coming, and we'd better plan for it.
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Some observers believe the growth of rental property is the first in a series of steps that will transform today's exurbs into tomorrow's low-income housing. These communities have a low tax base made up mostly of property and sales taxes, both of which are in decline.
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A Wisdom Archive on exurbs ... A selection of articles related to exurbs ... exurbs: Encyclopedia - Urban planning...
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Urban historian Witold Rybczynski says building communities like New Daleville, in the distant suburbs of Philadelphia, "made sense seven years ago when the idea was first floated, because the market was so strong." ... It makes them wonder whether moving to Chester County's exurbs was the right decision, after all.
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