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So what differentiates one place from another?
We've got a couple of obvious things: climate topography/geographic features I think human culture is a third. I think people have different life philosophies in different places, though I'm sure you could find different subsets in larger cities. But still, San Francisco is fundamentally different than Nashville. This is not just political, but also religious and even vocational. People in an industrial town may have a different way of seeing things than people who live in a technology town or a college town or a military town. Perhaps a subset of human culture is food. I was back in southern Missouri recently and the restaurant choices leaned much more classic American than I see in Denver. I saw a reference to water quality earlier in the thread, and perhaps air quality could fall into that as well. Architecture is certainly a regional difference. I was in Virginia a while back, and I can appreciate their strong colonial architecture, but I'm not a huge fan of it. What else differentiates a place to live?
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I have always wondered if national retailers change the price based on location. But with places like Home Depot people can buy online, so I wonder do they also give different online prices based on location? Or is it the same and they don't inflate based on location? Anyone know?
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Also, where I live, I can hike directly in front of my home or at Lake Hollywood, which is a 2 minute car ride or about a 10 minute walk up a step hill. I can be at the Santa Monica Pier in 45 minutes or less (without traffic, probably 30 minutes) or at my favorite beach, Will Rogers, which is in between the SM Pier and Malibu. I park on Temescal Canyon Road and can ride my bike on a bike path from there all the way to Redondo Beach and back (about a 40 mile roundtrip hike). I can drive 2 hours to Palm Springs, which is awesome in the Spring and Fall (and not too bad in the summer, if you're at a nice resort), drive 5.5 hours up the coast to San Francisco or 90 minutes down the 5 to Carlsbad, which is essentially the IPA Beer Capital of the World. From there, I can go to Legoland or catch the Amtrack for a few bucks and have it drop me off in front of the Padres baseball stadium, where I can see a game or hit one of the many bars and restaurants, then take the train back to Carlsbad. I can take a 45 minute boat trip to Catalina Island or take a two hour car ride to Lake Arrowhead in the winter to go skiing and snowboarding. Disneyland is generally a 30 minute drive from my home most mornings and I can hop a 2 hour flight to Cabo San Lucas to hang out and drink in an infinity pool for the weekend, then fly back home without missing a beat. It's impossible to do these things living in Colorado, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, et al, which is probably why we have 40 million people living in this state. |
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Most areas probably have similar patterns, but there are huge differences by region within the metro area. Out by the airport, I think the average price is 1/2 of the average price in my central-city neighborhood, or even less. But those people are generally paying a hefty commuting price, even without the Golden Gate Bridge toll.
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