garric said:
Wrong;
A suburb gives a man a sense of freedom. Freedom is an abstract concept and I'll rather not elaborate it, if you do not understand it already then I will have to leave it up to your life to discover the meaning of freedom yourself.. When I lived in the Soviet Union I could gaze out of my window in my ten story "krushevka" building and see across the street a man like me gazing out of his window. I saw no future, no opportunity, no freedom.
When I look outside my window in my house I can see the freedom, I can smell the freedom when I step outside and smell the fresh cut grass, and I can feel it under my car when I drive.
Ok...so freedom to you is having a lawn and open space. Ok, I'm cool with that. Would a man be even more free in the country then? If .5 of an acre with a neighbor's house in your face is freedom, isnt it better to have 20? If thats what you want though, I can't argue with that definition.
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I have no problem with Democrats or whatever, political diversity, etc, it really doesn't matter to me. As long as there's not so many liberals here I don't care if they're Republican or Democrat, it makes no difference to me. It's a fact that cities are filled with all matter of scum and low-lifes, so I'd rather not spend more time there than I have to. Sure, cities can be great; I love going to San Francisco and getting a good meal and walking around Pier 39, but otherwise I would NOT want live there.
So, you have no problem with democrats as long as they arent...liberal? I think, after looking at all of your posts, liberal means something different to you than it does to the rest of the country, but whatever. You dont want to live in a city, ok, fine. I think its a little unfair to paint every city as being full of scum and low life though.
No, there are NO homeless people in my suburb, nor have I ever seen one homeless man or woman in a suburb. There are none here, and I have never heard of a homeless problem in suburbia, so this is a non-issue and I will not discuss it further, EVER.
hahahah, flipping out a little bit? Its quite possible that you dont see homeless people in your suburb. There are thousands of them in America, and I dont know every single one. I know that in many of the suburbs in the city close to where I live most of the time (Columbus Ohio), there are many homeless people, and in the inner suburbs of Washington DC, there are many too. The Inner-Suburbs often have the similar problems that cities do. Maybe not an hour away from the city...but suburbs closer in? Sure.
Metropolitian Politics is one of my concentrations in school...we've done case studies on DC, Cleveland, Boston and LA, and I can certainly say that the problems of Drugs and homelessness are in some suburbs. I'd venture to say that drugs are a problem in MOST suburbs, but once people have enough money to support their habit, there isnt much crime. The one clear cut advantage, across the board that suburbs have in the quality of life area, I'd say, is quality of Public Schools. Even in the inner-suburbs, they best inner city public schools
Most successful men and women chose to live in the Suburbs, it's a much safer place to raise their children and commuting to the city is rather inexpensive and convenient, and one doesn't have to bother with the DREAD of having a car in the city and parking it.
Well, lots of cities have busses and trains now that make communiting easy. I'm not saying that many succsessful men and women live in suburbs. But there wouldnt be million dollar apartments or townhouses if people with dough didnt want to live there.
No, really. It has a very suburban feel--wide lawns, big houses, new building projects all the time, etc., but my town has less than 10,000 people (the "greater urban area" if we may term it that has something around ten to twenty thousand, with several thousand college students).
