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I was, sadly, uprooted as a teenager from a dense city to a suburb. I cannot imagine worse situation for kids to grow up. Everything you wanted to do, it took

I was, sadly, uprooted as a teenager from a dense city to a suburb. I cannot imagine worse situation for kids to grow up. Everything you wanted to do, it took driving by your parents to get you there. Or relying on spotty public transit. I grew apart from my school-friends, as they could share their evenings on fun and play, while I had to go back earlier (commute did take quite a long time) to be able to do my homework etc. My sleep quality also plummeted as I had to wake up 1-1.5h earlier than my friends to be on time for morning classes.

danaris 6y ago
It sounds like you were living in the suburb, but still going to school in the city—this is definitely not the norm even for a family that has moved from a city to the suburbs. In general, if you live in a suburb, you go to school either in the same suburb or a neighboring one. Indeed, one of the classic reasons to prefer one suburb over another is which school district it's in.
- odiroot 6y ago
  Well, there's no schools in the suburbs (at least no middle/high) so it's not like I had a choice.
  - djrogers 6y ago
    What you’re describing are not suburbs. I’ve lived in suburbs my entire life, and have never been more than 10 minutes from a high school - let alone a middle school. What your describing sounds a lot more like a remote rural town. And a small one at that!
    - odiroot 6y ago
      No, a suburb of the capital of my country, with more or less 3M population.
  - danaris 6y ago
    There are definitely schools in both suburbs and rural areas. In the area I grew up in, each suburban village/town had its own school district and at least one building each for elementary, middle, and high school, and we were right on the edge of rural (the house I grew up in, within one of the aforementioned suburban school districts, was literally a 150-year-old farmhouse, surrounded by farm fields). It's entirely possible—though quite unusual—that the specific suburbs you moved to had no schools to call their own, but it's absolutely untrue that "there's no schools in the suburbs".
omginternets 6y ago
>Everything you wanted to do, it took driving by your parents to get you there. Or relying on spotty public transit. My friends and I would just ride our bikes. It was great, actually.

danaris 6y ago

It sounds like you were living in the suburb, but still going to school in the city—this is definitely not the norm even for a family that has moved from a city to the suburbs. In general, if you live in a suburb, you go to school either in the same suburb or a neighboring one. Indeed, one of the classic reasons to prefer one suburb over another is which school district it's in.

odiroot 6y ago
Well, there's no schools in the suburbs (at least no middle/high) so it's not like I had a choice.
- djrogers 6y ago
  What you’re describing are not suburbs. I’ve lived in suburbs my entire life, and have never been more than 10 minutes from a high school - let alone a middle school. What your describing sounds a lot more like a remote rural town. And a small one at that!
  - odiroot 6y ago
    No, a suburb of the capital of my country, with more or less 3M population.
- danaris 6y ago
  There are definitely schools in both suburbs and rural areas. In the area I grew up in, each suburban village/town had its own school district and at least one building each for elementary, middle, and high school, and we were right on the edge of rural (the house I grew up in, within one of the aforementioned suburban school districts, was literally a 150-year-old farmhouse, surrounded by farm fields). It's entirely possible—though quite unusual—that the specific suburbs you moved to had no schools to call their own, but it's absolutely untrue that "there's no schools in the suburbs".

omginternets 6y ago

>Everything you wanted to do, it took driving by your parents to get you there. Or relying on spotty public transit. My friends and I would just ride our bikes. It was great, actually.