Secrets of the City

All of a sudden those scenic Albertville townhomes they advertise on I-94 don’t look like such a good deal.

Meh, running natural gas to your house gets you much worse odds than having a nuclear plant in your back yard… and those “scenic” houses are already fatally flawed by being situated in Albertville.

Champs, you are such a snob. I hope that one day life circumstances force you to not only move to the suburbs, but the outlying ones, like Lino Lakes or White Bear. Then you’ll be forced to come on here and make comments like “Actuuually, the suburbs have a surprising amount of cultural diversions that I had never noticed before…”

It’s a nice feel good move but that’s about it. If a reactor loses containment, you’re going to have a hell of a lot more to worry about than your thyroid getting overnuked.

Maybe it’ll shut the antinuke crowd up for a bit though.

Actually the suburbs will continue to become less and less of the ‘affordable’ option as gas prices continue to rise and new development continues to be further out. So financial circumstances might just force someone to live in the southside hood before the suburbs!

I don’t understand how anyone can claim they’re “forced” to live in the suburbs (or anywhere, for that matter). People choose to live where they want to, based on a whole slew of criteria like cost, size, quality of schools, proximity to ammenities, etc. I’m sure if you really wanted to live in the city, you could find a place. Maybe you’d rent, or maybe you’d have a house with a smaller square footage, but it would be possible.

I went to highschool in Monticello. Just like the rest of the world had fire drills and tornado drills… we had meltdown drills. In case of containment loss we were to board busses for Osseo.

Kayopectate can deal with “loss of containment” problems.

And aren’t distant suburbs themselves the result of a population “loss of containment”?