UltraHammer said:
Hey Bob, maybe some people like socializing and having neighbors, but DON'T like being piled up in a city. Obviously politics affects everything in the world, but I think the main thing that makes suburbia popular is that people genuinely like living in it.
Personally, me and MY family are rural and detests the idea of having another house within sight of our driveway. But I still understand other peoples' lifestyle tastes.
That's the IDEA of suburbia. The reality is often fraught with petty cruelties and monotony. American suburbia especially seems uniquely well fitted to these problems and pressures since most of them are grind planned, modern built mega developments. Suburban people don't often know their neighbors terribly well, but just well enough to judge them. In many areas there can also be pretty baffling housing codes (the old stereotype of people being shunned for their front yard having the wrong kind of sprinkler somewhat still holds true). The overriding words i would use to describe US suburban life are "Conformity" and "boredom".
As a young person especially the suburbs can feel like a flat, constructed prison. A kind of nowhere place that were built very rigidly with a very specific lifestyle in mind, especially when it comes commercial areas. Suburbs have no character. They are made to be functionally boring, they are very isolating places to be sometimes. They are bad for the soul.
