{"id":15,"date":"2010-10-16T14:03:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T18:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/?p=15"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:34:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:34:59","slug":"the-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2010\/10\/the-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"The debate, Urban or Sub-Urban Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_939\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2010\/10\/the-debate\/urban-suburban\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-939\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-939\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-939\" title=\"Urban vs Suburban\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/urban-suburban-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Urban vs Suburban\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/urban-suburban-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/urban-suburban.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Urban vs Suburban<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I currently live and work in a suburb just north of Toronto. We have a descent sized cookie-cutter house, in a all-to-common sprawled subdivision. We have a nice plot of land. It is the &#8220;ideal&#8221; spot to live and raise a family, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I both have a car as this is the norm in suburbia; public transit is just not a viable option. Suffice it to say, we drive virtually everywhere as nothing but the park is within walking distance. Luckily I live only a few minutes from work and when it&#8217;s nice am able to ride my bike. My wife unfortunately has a 20 min commute. We are not too far from Toronto &#8211; about a 45 minute drive with light traffic &#8211; so we do get downtown quite often which is nice. So nice in fact that this is where the debate starts, which is better sub-urban verses urban living.<\/p>\n<p>I have many friends that live the exact opposite of me: small apartment or loft right downtown, no large property, no cars (most zipcar when one is needed), walk\/bike\/ take TTC virtually everywhere&#8230;.. the opposite. I really like the simplicity of this lifestyle. I like the vibrancy of urban communities. I like the culture, restaurants and nightlife as well. But I like my house, and my over-sized property as well. So the debate continues, mainly in my own thoughts, whether I would prefer an urban or sub-urban life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I currently live and work in a suburb just north of Toronto. We have a descent sized cookie-cutter house, in a all-to-common sprawled subdivision. We have a nice plot of land. It is the &#8220;ideal&#8221; spot to live and raise a family, isn&#8217;t it? My wife and I both have a car as this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178],"tags":[26,20,30,31,24,25,21,27,19,23,29,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}