>>2546421>And suburbs are best if you're elderly or raising young children.Strongly disagree, because we live in the age of trunk-or-treating. It's too dangerous for kids to walk or bike through their own neighborhoods or even leave their yards. Once upon a time, every movie and novel (It, Stand By Me, E.T., The Goonies, etc.) showed kids roaming and biking through their own neighborhoods, because that's how it really was and it was taken as a given. Now, they're driven everywhere, and if they play outside it's after being driven to a /designated area/.
My Dad was born in 1950 and grew up in a medium-sized American city. He used to get home from school, grab his tackle, jump on his bike, and head out to fish at the pier or in a local stream (the city was less developed and its outskirts less suburb-infested back then).
The ideal thing to do now while we try our best to avoid the fact that our civilization is disintegrating, that the center cannot hold, is to live rurally but also send your kids off to private boarding schools so they actually have a chance to learn something. That's how I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and I'm quite grateful. Being purely urban, purely rural, or God forbid, suburban is a fate worse than death. Suburbs are wastelands of usually non-mixed-use streets, biological dead zone "lawns," and cracker box houses, and residents have to drive thirty minutes minimum to buy a carton of milk.
Don't even try to tell me it's All-American that kids can't ride their bikes through their neighborhoods. Urbanoids and suburbanoids are living as corporate cattle in a post-American dystopia now.
