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Originally Posted by Shawn
You get everything from 40,000+ pp sq mile, rail-serviced urban squares to pristine New England rural estates, dotted by Olmsted parks throughout, and all in under 7 sq miles.
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the bolded is one of the craziest things about Brookline.
this thing is only 4.5 miles from downtown boston:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3217.../data=!3m1!1e3
you don't see bonafide country mansion estates like that in chicagoland until you're like at least 20 miles outside of downtown.
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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Aesthetically, I really like the towers of the Southfield Town Center. But building them was a HUGE mistake.
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the tower with the gold glass and X-bracing is really nice, but that whole part of southfield is an auto-centric sprawl-burban nightmare at street level:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4800...7i16384!8i8192