This comment is only tangentially related to the post, in particular, to the first 15 or so paragraphs of it.
Marin County, the part of the Bay Area in which I live, doesn’t have outdoor advertising except on buses, on less than a dozen bus shelters (all of which are within 100 yards of highway 101) and on the property (the retail location) of the firm whose product or brand is being advertised.
Of course people’s aesthetic responses vary, but for me personally, my being spared from most of the outdoor advertising I’d be subjected to if I lived in another suburban or urban location in the US, e.g., Berkeley, dwarfs all the aesthetic considerations mentioned in the first 15 or so paragraphs of this post about where to live. (Not that the aesthetic considerations in this post are not worthy of discussion.)
This comment is only tangentially related to the post, in particular, to the first 15 or so paragraphs of it.
Marin County, the part of the Bay Area in which I live, doesn’t have outdoor advertising except on buses, on less than a dozen bus shelters (all of which are within 100 yards of highway 101) and on the property (the retail location) of the firm whose product or brand is being advertised.
Of course people’s aesthetic responses vary, but for me personally, my being spared from most of the outdoor advertising I’d be subjected to if I lived in another suburban or urban location in the US, e.g., Berkeley, dwarfs all the aesthetic considerations mentioned in the first 15 or so paragraphs of this post about where to live. (Not that the aesthetic considerations in this post are not worthy of discussion.)