I agree completely. I get so bored with the over-the-top standard-issue whine about suburbs which you nowadays hear from just about anyone who doesn't live in o

I agree completely. I get so bored with the over-the-top standard-issue whine about suburbs which you nowadays hear from just about anyone who doesn't live in one. Blah blah ugly blah blah McMansions blah blah Wal-Mart blah-blah soul-destroying. To me it always just comes across as snobbery: some fashionable upper-middle-class guy criticising the unfashionable lower middle class for not being as tasteful as he is. Sometimes it's a bit more sinister -- the criticisms which come from an extreme left-wing position always seem to carry a wish that the lower two thirds of society would stop buying the four-bedroom houses and huge TVs that they can now easily afford, and go back to being those picturesque poor huddled masses so that we can can plot revolution on their behalf. But usually it's just boring old snobbery, in one of its few remaining socially-acceptable forms.