| Over the last 30 years there has been a mass | | | | Montana? Nuts I tell you! |
| migration to the suburbs and with the latest housing | | | | Many suburban areas were set up due to urban flight |
| boom even more homes were built. Now that | | | | and they are "Bedroom Communities" then the |
| everyone has moved to the suburbs and brought | | | | bosses got tired of driving into town and so they |
| their bad driving habits with them, the traffic in the | | | | brought their companies to the suburbs. Now the |
| suburbs is just as bad, if not worse, as it was never | | | | change is another paradigm shift "albeit" it started |
| designed for this level of traffic. In some suburb cities | | | | slow and is now in full-bloom everywhere. |
| that were once quiet bedroom towns, no matter | | | | I watched this trend in Southern CA, before the |
| what time of day that you drive the traffic is insane. | | | | Silicon Valley Changes when small service businesses |
| Yes that is a huge issue and let's take a few | | | | started getting called to residences for those who |
| examples; | | | | worked out of their homes. Lots of people, and |
| 1.) Houston, semi suburb in the Westheimer Corridor, | | | | nobody really ever did the stats on that other than |
| traffic is a disaster. | | | | Home Business Licenses at city hall, but most people |
| 2.) Santa Monica, Huntington Beach, New Port Beach, | | | | never bothered to get one. |
| Pasadena, San Diego, Palo Alto CA, traffic is | | | | The average city with 100,000 people has about |
| outrageous. | | | | 1000-2000 members in the chamber of commerce |
| 3.) Atlanta Suburbs all bad. | | | | and that is usually 10-20% of the businesses that |
| 4.) North Boston Suburbs "free parking" | | | | have business licenses. About 10% or 10,000 per |
| 5.) DC Adjacent; "mixing bowl" and suburbs, bad | | | | 100,000 are self employed with business licenses, but |
| anytime of day. | | | | that number in reality is higher. |
| 6.) Dallas-Ft Worth suburbs, are a disaster. | | | | As things change, "Knowledge Workers" ie... "Business |
| Having been to every city in the Nation over 10,000 | | | | at the Speed of Thought" workers working out of |
| people I already see it. Give me my Net-Centric Flying | | | | their homes will continue to grow just as you |
| Car! Help. Even in Missoula Montana, they have a | | | | showed in your study. 20-35% is not hard to imagine |
| place the locals call "Dysfunction Junction" and it is a | | | | at all. |
| 15 minute wait in traffic (one intersection) in | | | | |