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I live within spitting distance of the city line, i.e. in the inner suburbs, in a dense neighborhood just above the poverty line. This location gives me easy access by bike or car to shops and entertainment, and it's a short commute into the wealthy suburb where I work. I like it here, I just wish the neighbors were a little classier.
To answer the question, artierial city streets with thankfully few stop signs and a low speed limit, but a lot of traffic. On a bike, it's bike lanes and side streets. When traffic is light and I'm on the bike, sometimes I take up the right lane of a four-lane road and declare "cars will change lanes to pass cyclists". It works well in the suburbs, but denizens of poor neighborhoods don't respond well to that.
You really can't get to know a place when you're sealed inside a car, whizzing past at 35mph.
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