Re: Housing starts a.k.a. land attrition

"jloomis" <jloomis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "George Conklin" <nil@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "jloomis" <jloomis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> I am speaking about "rural" meaning subdivisions 10 to 35 miles from
> >> urban
> >> areas......
> >
> >   Most of the residents of such places work locally.  Your imagination
> > that
> > everyone commutes to a downtown is just plain wrong.
> >
> >
>
>
> I take it you do not live in Calif.  Drive down Hi.way 80..........Look
at
> the suburbs........now business's there.....
> Drive up 101......Suburb between Santa Rosa and San Francisco.....
> Why do you think they call these (bedroom communities)  They sleep there
and
> then commute......
> Commuting is the main source of home to work.......many, many
miles......No
> buses, no trains, just Big Cars, and gas guzzling Pickups with one
driver
> and no baggage.......
> Anyway......I am wasting my breath......
> We do have a problem with traffic, and highways, and commuting......Gas
> prices are a sign, and like the tip of the ice-berg.......more to
> come.........
> Where do you get the idea that "most residents work locally" You must be
> living in a dream.
> whatever...."Fill er Up"
> jloomis

The average commute is 10 miles and 21 minutes.  Most commutes are
suburb-to-suburb.