Talk:Bedroom community
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[edit] Moses?
Considering what an impact Moses and his "renewal" of NYC had on NJ and the rest of the tristate area, shouldn't there be some mention of what sort of history bedroom communities have? Places like Summit exist in the way that they do because of Moses.---GanyBlack 14:32, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Get it on
frankly, i believe that people can get it on in bedroom communities, so i took out the phrase about "get[ting] it on" from this article.
[edit] List of bedroom communities
I don't know how many bedroom communities there are, or how one can clearly differentiate them in every case, but there must be a couple of thousand. Wouldn't it make sense to leave the list to a category and avoid getting a very long list here? --Leifern 18:51, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List cleanup
Mount Carmel, Illinois is quite distant (45 miles) from the only nearby metropolitan area, has one remaining factory that I know of, and massive coal power plant not two miles outside of its city limits. Those that do commute to employment centers outside of town go to three cities, two of which have populations of under 10,000 people. I'm removing it from the list. MrZaiustalk 13:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bedroom community v. Dormitory town
I am very unhappy with the redirect of dormitory town to the highly US specific bedroom community. The phrase dormitory town is used in the UK, and throughout the rest of the English speaking world; bedroom community would appear to be a US-specific term. I suggest that these articles be split, with a see also somewhere prominent in the article. Normally I am happy to go along with Americanisations but this is a singularly unfortunate exception; an English speaking non-US citizen redirected to bedroom community would be as suprised as I was to find themselves there. Sjc 04:19, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- I agree that 'bedroom community' is very striking to a British person, but it may be that 'dormitory town' is similarly odd to Americans. Why not push the more neutral 'commuter town' to the fore, and introduce the other two as regional alternatives? EmmaSmith 11:43, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- I'd love to agree (never heard of bedroom community myself), however Bedroom communitry wins the fight 132.185.144.122 03:34, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- It's less of a fight, more a case of catering to English speakers around the world, not just those in N. America. If people want to start a UK or a U.S. wikipedia they should go ahead and do that. As it is 'Bedroom community' is very much in minority use. Commuter town is the neutral English language term. Hakluyt bean 18:24, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
There are a ton of bedroom communities in the country, Kissimmee, Florida is one, housing a majority of workers from Walt Disney World, Concord, North Carolina is one, its growth has spurred big time as it is just outside of Charlotte across the county line. Christiansburg, Virginia would be considered one as it is near Virginia Tech and 20 minutes from Roanoke. All three of those places are county seats but growth of those places are based on cities and industries nearby and do not have too many big industries of their own. There are many other examples but these type communties can be county seats as well.
