Bicycle City in South Carolina

[emily_in_nc]

Just read about this on peopleforbikes.org tonight. Very cool if they can pull it off. Looks like it's still in the very early planning stages:

http://www.bicyclecitysc.com/

[kmehrzad]

Very cool indeed. My son and his wife live right outside of Columbia and eventually my DH and I plan on retiring down there. I'm going to be looking at this community in more detail.

Thanks for posting.

[tulip]

Interesting!

[Tri Girl]

I would live there!!!!

[emily_in_nc]

If things don't work out for us in Belize for any reason, I'd certainly look into this too. Only downside is that my DH's brother and his family live in Columbia, and we don't exactly see eye-to-eye with them on politics, religion, and a lot of other things, so I'm not sure I'd want to live quite that close!

[Tri Girl]

yeah, but he'd have to ride a bicycle to come see you- so you probably wouldn't see him that much anyway, right?

[Crankin]

It looks interesting. But... I have a feeling that those political, religious, and social issue opinions are probably the same as your brother in law's.

[tulip]

It looks interesting. But... I have a feeling that those political, religious, and social issue opinions are probably the same as your brother in law's.

Wow. That is one big stereotype. I'm surprised.

[Crankin]

Sorry if it's a stereotype. I have lived in the south and always felt "different." It was somewhat similar in Phoenix, when I first lived there, too. So it's based entirely on my own perceptions and experience. That said, of course, there's always like minded people in most places, but I guess the fact that I've lived 2 places where my view of the world was definitely the minority view, I did make a conscious decision to live in a place where that wasn't true.
I think it's a question of living among people who have been exposed to lots of different cultures and religions; where I find it interesting, others see it as threatening to their way of life. I got tired of explaining why I didn't do certain things or celebrate certain holidays and then getting a blank stare and a cold shoulder.
Hope I didn't offend anyone.

[emily_in_nc]

It didn't offend me at all. I'm already a southerner, though, lived in NC all my life, so I am used to living among lots of people I don't necessarily agree with on political/religious matters since I am your basic tree-hugging liberal. I grew up in an academic & theater family, and since my parents' friends were also in academia or theater, I never felt out of the mainstream until I went to high school and realized that we were "different" from a lot of other folks in the same city.

But even in the south, if you choose your communities carefully, you can find lots of like-minded people. I have a feeling the folks who would move to a car-free city, no matter in which state it happened to be, would be a bit out of the mainstream. Lots of tree-huggers, I suspect.