Welcome to Phoenix - or the greater Phoenix area, i'm not quite sure what it's called, but it's massive. The main streets are 6 lanes wide, the cars seem like they are all SUVs or trucks, they have drive-through banks and restaurants and liquor stores - plus they have restaurants where drive up, order and they server you while you sit in your car - weird! The houses are all clustered together in gated or psuedo-gated communities, each group of communities seems to have one or two massive mall complexes with a Target, grocery store, pizza place, bank and Home Depot! Plus you can't go a block without hitting a car store of some sort - breaks, fluids, parts you name it...these people must worship their cars. You'd think that they'd never get any exercise driving everywhere, but once you see the size of the parking lots you start to reconsider that.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Urban Sprawl...and home depots
Welcome to Phoenix - or the greater Phoenix area, i'm not quite sure what it's called, but it's massive. The main streets are 6 lanes wide, the cars seem like they are all SUVs or trucks, they have drive-through banks and restaurants and liquor stores - plus they have restaurants where drive up, order and they server you while you sit in your car - weird! The houses are all clustered together in gated or psuedo-gated communities, each group of communities seems to have one or two massive mall complexes with a Target, grocery store, pizza place, bank and Home Depot! Plus you can't go a block without hitting a car store of some sort - breaks, fluids, parts you name it...these people must worship their cars. You'd think that they'd never get any exercise driving everywhere, but once you see the size of the parking lots you start to reconsider that.
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