Re: Suburbs aren't so respectable after all
- From: Fod <friendsofderek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:41:40 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 30, 3:18 pm, Doug <dougbol...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The motorists who dominate and infest this newsgroup always gloat
about how their car-dependent suburban lifestyle is superior to urban
living. But if you scratch underneath the glossy veneer, it soon
becomes clear that suburbs are a bleak, miserable place plagued by
crime, isolation, obesity, and social deprivation. The failure of this
unsustainable way of life has once again come to the surface:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/26/ukcrime.drugsandalcohol
"What was a cottage industry is now a slick and secret network of
factories and farms, many based in respectable suburbs."
While suburbs are slowly rotting away, vibrant communities in urban
cores are going from strength to strength. I wonder how long it will
take for the blinkered motorists to notice? Given their anti-social
attitude and tendency to isolate themselves from the rest of the world
in steel cocoons, probably not until they live in a outright slum.
I live in a suburb. We've got kids playing, parks and local shops.
The countryside is literally a stones throw away. I can see mountains
and hills in the distance from my garden and I'm a 20 minute bus/train/
car journey from the center of the city.
The previous burb I stayed in was almost the exact same though it was
in a town not a city.
When I stayed in the city center I had neighbours from hell and
someone through up in the doorway to my flat twice. Alarms were
constantly going off and it was noisey 24/7, especially at pub closing
time. You'd see drunks at all time of the day and the local drug
dealer was a personal friend of my flatmate so he hung about quite a
bit...
I guess your millage may vary.
Fod
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