Hi there! 👋 Hi from MadeInNewEngland

[MadeInNewEngland]

Hello. I am basically a browser. I'm trying to decide if I want to study Urban Planning. I have always had an interest in environmental issues, and architecture. I'm not sure if I have the gift of compromise that an urban planner needs to have though. If it was up to me there wouldn't be such a thing as suburbia. I really enjoy the discussions on this board and I'm glad I stumbled across it.

 

[PlannerGirl]

Welcome from the DC area!

 

[SGB]

Welcome from central New York. I've been a Connecticut escapee now for 15 years.

Read, discuss, learn and be assimilated.

 

[ludes98]

Glad you decided to post. Welcome from the Valley of the Sun, a collection of suburbs.

 

[Rumpy Tunanator]

Welcome to the ship, yarrrrrr:b:

 

[MadeInNewEngland]

Welcome from central New York. I've been a Connecticut escapee now for 15 years.

Read, discuss, learn and be assimilated.

How did you do it? I've been stuck in CT for too long. Looking to move to Boston soon though.

 

[NHPlanner]

Welcome from a couple of states north of you! :b:

 

[Seabishop]

Welcome from the state to the east of you. We think Connecticut is really big.

 

[Doitnow]

I'm trying to decide if I want to study Urban Planning

You have already taken one good decision. That of joining Cyburbia.
Now take the other one. Whatever it may be planning is a challenging profession.
Anycase, Welcome!

 

[Gedunker]

Greetings from Thunder Country, north side of the Ohio, 609 miles from its birthplace. We haven't the slightest idea what it is around here, but oh well.

I presume you have time to decide what you would like to do. Don't rush to decide if you don't have to. Enjoy Cyburbia.

 

[Richmond Jake]

Welcome from the land of famous edible tubers. :b:

 

[boiker]

Hello and Welcome from Peoria, IL

 

[Zoning Goddess]

Howdy from Central Florida!

 

[JNA]

Welcome
from the northshore of the Ohio River at Milemarker 792.5
in the CTZ therefore west of Gedunker.

Post early, post often with wit and insight.

 

[Cardinal]

Welcome. Cyburbia is a great place to explore the planning profession and het a feel for what we have to deal with on a regular basis. As for compromises, you'll have to make them in any field you choose.

 

[Planderella]

Welcome

 

[mendelman]

Welcome from the bottom of Lake Michigan - Chicago!

CT is not too bad. My wife lived in Milford for a year before we got married, and I kind of liked it, at least the southwestern part.

If it's not that great by many measures, it is wonderfully located for access to great cities/places of the East Coast - NY, Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, etc...Oh...and Bridgeport ;-)

 

[biscuit]

Welcome from the Point of creation of the mighty Ohio River.

 

[Seabishop]

Welcome from central New York. I've been a Connecticut escapee now for 15 years.

Were you a planner in CT? If so, was there a reason one should avoid planning jobs there?

 

[Big Easy King]

Welcome and greetings.

 

[SkeLeton]

Welcome to Cyburbia, MINE!

 

[Budgie]

I'm trying to decide if I want to study Urban Planning.

A little advice - DON'T FOR GOD'S SAKE !!!!! Having said that, I really like it.

Welcome from the City where Wild Bill Hickok got his first real job.

 

[SGB]

Were you a planner in CT?

Nope. I fled before I entered the workforce full time.

 

[Maister]

welcome from the 'heel of the hand'

 

[Rem]

Hello......I'm trying to decide if I want to study Urban Planning..........

Hello and welcome MINE. The only way to answer your question is to start the course, graduate, work as a planner for 40 years and then sit back and contemplate your achievments. If that sounds difficult, I can say you at least have the insight to be a planner.