Interesting article on city life and the brain

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It takes me about 30-40 minutes to drive to Boston, if there's no traffic, and about 20 minutes to drive to "close-in" suburbs, with more stores and restaurants. I like the fact that I can take the commuter rail into the city, if I want.

Nice to be close to alot of options.
I actually am genuinely puzzled why people even talk about moving into retirement communities after they downsize, etc. Why would I want to be around alot of people who are the same abilities, begining to die off, get very sick all around me?

There is no need until one gets really frail/very ill. One just has to completely change their mind set to consider living in a more urban area where it is close to alot of services, etc. My partner's mother lived in downtown Vancovuer herself (apartment) until...she was 91 for a few years until she had to go into a nursing home. For certain, if she lived in the suburbs, she would have been isolated big time. She didn't drive.

But perhaps people fall into this line of thinking if they are lived in near rural areas for several decades.

People associate city with crime...well, I have to say crime is moving out to the suburbs in certain areas...because it hides crap...in Vancouver suburbs, there is still car theft, car break-ins and home invasion, domestic violence, drug grow-ops ...because people are more isolated, removed, etc.