>>1014806I wouldn't want to live in a suburb. I find the idea of those huge extensions of single houses with their pathetic little back yard extremely depressing. The idea of being in a low-density residential zone with any kind of leisure facility, commerce or other pole of activity so far away as not to be able to walk there, nor any kind of reasonable public transit and in general depending on your car for EVERYTHING doesn't just depress me, it even scares me. I wouldn't want to be that dependent on any one kind of machine. It would make me feel trapped in the middle of nowhere, in a dead neighbourhood, no people on the street, no cafés to go and have a drink or bite to eat, no old people playing lawn bowling at the little park across the street. And I don't even live in a good neighbourhood, this is a crappy lower middle class area. I can't fathom why anyone would want to live in a suburb, other than because your city is so fucked up that it's been rendered uninhabitable.
Mind you, I'm not saying there aren't people here that don't like burbs. We don't have burger-style suburbs, but instead small villages that have been turned into "dormitory towns", essentially the same but usually huddled around a couple of streets forming an "old town", since they are after all villages that existed before they were turned into suburbs. Many people prefer to live in those places. I don't mind, whatever floats their boat... I just think it's really sad...
