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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I live in the burbs. I live in the town my wife grew up in, and near a lot of her family, and that's why I live in the burbs. But there is one thing that will never be fixed in the burbs.
They are full of suburbanites. Everywhere you look, there is another fucking suburbanite.
These people do their kids homework for them, because they care how they do not what they learn. They compare shit endlessly. Homes, cars, snowblowers, boob jobs. Who they know. Who they want to know. What they watch on TV. And they all seem to have been made at the same factory.
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I suspect that TM is the only person here who lives in a city larger than the one I do, but like Adder I live in a part of it that is almost all zoned for single-family homes with yards, which means that the population density is suburban. I'm no fan of it. I move to where I am because it was super convenient to a job that I no longer have, and now I'm stuck there because I don't want to move my kids to another school unless I have to. The thing I like the least is that the suburban population density means you have to drive everywhere, and makes for less interesting businesses and restaurants. So much of what other people are saying flows from that. Everyone wants their own little yard so their neighbors aren't next door, but when everyone has that little yard and the zoning doesn't permit the construction of apartments or other denser housing, then there you are. I don't think suburbanites are inherently boring, but (particularly when you have kids) it gets harder to figure out how to connect withthe interesting ones. As TM said, spending time trying to make conversation with other parents on youth sports teams is one of the lower circles in Dante's Inferno. That was similarly true when I lived in a city, though.
