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[littlebopeep03]

Ah, suburbia, my loathing for you knows no bounds. What is suburbia? It is the most artificial, synthetic imitation of nature ever created (and, of course, I don't believe in exaggerating). Because I'm a Baudelaire fan, I'll analyse suburbia from his pov. I'm going to argue that he'd think of it as a hideous crime against humanity. If the

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[jetfx]

Suburbia is a strange place. Most of my experiences with it involve wandering around and getting lost there at some ungodly hour of the night. I must say it was fun exploring and trying to imagine what sort of people lived in those houses. But frankly, I either want a bustling metropolis where I can look up dizzily at the buildings stretching into the sky, or a vast wilderness. No where in between. Really they should ban the outward expansion of cities and force them to go up. Not only does it look cooler, but it solves the problem of urban sprawl.

Why does suburbia exist, and will probably continue to exist? People want to live there. The concept of your own house is so very central to the American Dream, and houses downtown tend to be rather expensive to own.

I share the same problem in Cape Breton, everywhere is too far to walk and bloody Iran is making it a bitch to drive cheaply this summer. Oil not nukes!

[littlebopeep03]

See, just because people want to live there, doesn't give it a valid reason to exist, like walmart... Oh, wait, walmart exists too, and won't be going anywhere anytime soon...

And rural communities have similar problems as suburban, but in their proper context, the people who live there will be busy.

[shortycam]

Agreed. You've heard me bitch plenty about suburbia, so there's not much I can say here that will be new, but don't forget that boredom is an integral part of suburbia, another reason Beaudelaire would have loathed it. I agree with Bill: I'm at home either in a city or the wilderness, nowhere in between.

[littlebopeep03]

definately. On the train from Montreal to New York, as I was going south, I could tell I was coming home by the forest and mountains. I may detest the US, and for the most part, I'm home wherever I'm currently living, but there's something that cannot be denied about forests.