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I'll start, when you live in the suburbs, you never talk to your neighbors.
I lived in a major city for 8 years. I met only 3 of my neighbors in that entire time. We had 20 houses that were on the block. I moved to the suburbs 6 months ago, same situation, 20 houses on the block. We've already had a block party and i met every neighbor on my street. I don't know why people think we just run to our houses and lock our doors.
I don't know why people think we just run to our houses and lock our doors.
Because that's probably what life was like in the suburbs for the newly arrived urban pioneer. Moving into a neighborhood with "character" will somehow change everything. It's too bad that all of the people from the bland vanilla suburbs he came from also move to the same neighborhood, making it a virtual replica of the sterile environs he tried so desperately to get away from.
Excellent break-off thread, nighttrain55! I can't wait to see the discussion here. Living in both the suburbs, and urban areas, I have a few things that can go in here:
-Gated neighborhoods are safer. (while resale value is often "safer", your possessions aren't always. Gated neighborhoods mean money and nice things)
-You have to drive everywhere. (depends on the place. In the NYC metro area, there's some suburbs that have rail lines nearby, with access to the city center. Some neighborhoods even have markets within walking distance. In other places, though, this might be true)
-Only traditional families/households live there (On our street, there's my roommate and I -- two college students, a single male across the street, a quirky family who raises chickens in their backyard, a grown man who lives with his mother, and a house filled with presumably illegals -- there's about 20 of them living there)
That's all I'll post for now. I've got positive ones and negative ones. Love playing devil's advocate.
Because that's probably what life was like in the suburbs for the newly arrived urban pioneer. Moving into a neighborhood with "character" will somehow change everything. It's too bad that all of the people from the bland vanilla suburbs he came from also move to the same neighborhood, making it a virtual replica of the sterile environs he tried so desperately to get away from.
I've lived in the city, the suburbs, and a suburban rural city. I have no idea where this stupid rumor started that people in the suburbs don't talk to one another. When I lived in the big city of Chicago, I never knew ANY of the people that lived next door to our apartment! I knew people on the floor though. We knew each other because there would be social functions for children and we'd always go and meet up. That's the ONLY way I even knew anybody on that floor. I still to this day have no idea who lived in the apartment next to us or across from us. Never even seen them.
Eventually we moved down to Texas. Lived in several suburbs and we knew who our neighbors were. We were friends with several! In Florida, when we lived in a suburban-rural type of city, we once had a problem with our well system. The WHOLE BLOCK was at our house trying to solve the problem! It was SO surreal having so many people care that much to try to help us. You will never find that kind of community in the city!
The post-WWII suburban neighborhoods are generally fairly walkable, and are reasonably dense, without sacrificing a little bit of privacy. The McMansion neighborhoods of the late 20th/early 21 century are overbuilt and unnecessary, and not pedestrian-friendly at all..
The McMansion neighborhoods of the late 20th/early 21 century are overbuilt and unnecessary, and not pedestrian-friendly at all..
Yeah, that is a common misconception.
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