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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
The problem with ethnic food (even Chinese) in the suburbs is that it has to be completely de-spiced to appeal to the overwhelmingly bland suburban palate. The number of suburbanites I've been exposed to who cannot stomach any form of spice is enough to make me never want to move to the suburbs by itself.
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This is certainly true in places but it totally depends on where you are. In DC, for example, you get better Chinese food in the suburbs than in the city. There is no good Chinese food in DC's Chinatown. Sichuan Pavillion in Rockville, to name one place, is better by miles than any Chinese in the District.
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The problem with your theory about delivery in the burbs is gas prices and time spent driving. It's not worth it to a restaurant for a delivery guy at a non-chain restaurant to try to cover the 5 square miles it would take to have enough orders to justify delivery service. I could be wrong, but when I go to my ex-wife's house, their options are pathetic. And they have to drive for 5 mins to get milk, 10 to get actual groceries, and between 10 and 30 to get to any restaurant that's halfway decent.
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The flip side is that as restaurants orient more to delivery, they don't need to locate in expensive locations, which is a huge savings. One danger with delivery is the possibility that some intermediary will monopolize the space and capture all of the savings, but I don't see why it'll be a winner-take-all market.
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But, whatever. I hope delivery explodes in the suburbs such that you're living the life of a pretty little flower! Suburbanites feel superior about how they live, city people feel the same. We just value different things. I despise the "create my own little pod" approach to life. But that's probably not how most suburbanites view how they live. They just want a yard and some space. Fair enough.
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To be clear, I would rather live somewhere urban than somewhere suburban. I moved to my present spot for a job nearby, and now I don't want to move my kids out of their school. But not for them, I would be back in a city.
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But the mall is everything that's wrong with this country. I'm not budging on that.
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With you. And tie it back to food, the rents are sufficiently high at the mall that the food is almost never any good.
