Bedroom community, city or suburb

The name of this blog is probably a little misleading.

I had a conversation last week with someone who said that Burlington is not a suburb but a city or at a stretch a bedroom community.

According to Wikipedia "Most modern suburbs are commuter towns with many single-family homes. Many suburbs have some degree of political autonomy and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods."

Well Burlington seems to qualify for that - it is a commuter town for many, does have a degree of autonomy and is certainly less dense than inner city areas, but it is probably not a bedroom community. Again from Wikipedia "As a general rule, suburbs are developed in areas adjacent to main employment centres, such as a town or a city, but may or may not have many jobs locally, whereas bedroom communities have few local businesses and most residents commute to employment centers some distance away."

Maybe I should change the name of the blog to Musings from Burlington: a commuter town for some a home for everyone else even though I still think Burlington can be classified as a suburb.