Re: Suburbs aren't so respectable after all

Doug 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.

Doug

So the Guardian has no respect for the lives of suburb-dewllers.

Dog bites man - no news here, no news at all.

Move along - there's nothing to see.
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