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Posted by Peter Rosa on Mon Mar 14 12:59:28 2005, in response to Re: London news, posted by Max Roberts on Mon Mar 14 12:39:43 2005. Currently, I live at the pleasant riverside town of Wivenhoe in Essex (population 10,000). It is a 15 minute walk to the local station, and trains take me to London in 1hr 15 minutes. Even if I were to take a job in London, I can't imagine any new housing developments of decline in prices that would tempt me back.Not many photos of Wivenhoe on line, but try this page (its not mine): http://www.mike.varley.btinternet.co.uk/Wivenhoe/wivenhoe.htm Not a bad-looking town. Anyway, your comment about the trains to London got me thinking ... London's Greenbelt development limits work well in part because of the massive commuter rail network. People who live beyond the Greenbelt nonetheless can commute into central London quite easily thanks to all the trains. If you had a similar development limit around an auto-oriented American city,* people who couldn't afford to live within the development limit, and therefore had to live in outlying areas, often would be faced with unacceptably long drives into work. * = IIRC Portland has a Greenbelt-style development restriction, but it's not that large of a city and also has a decent light-rail system. My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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