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I grew up in the suburbs and your diatribe is utterly foreign to me. As kids we were expected to get out of the house and not return until it was dark. I spent
by MisterBastahrd 4y ago
I grew up in the suburbs and your diatribe is utterly foreign to me. As kids we were expected to get out of the house and not return until it was dark. I spent many days fishing in a river pond that was almost 2 miles from my house, secluded in the woods. Maybe you need to get out more. The City(tm) is not a panacea. There's no place that people are strangers with each other more than apartment complexes.
- woodruffw 4y agoI'm glad it's not your experience. It wasn't meant to be a blanket claim about the quality of peoples' lives in the suburbs; it was a general sociological claim about how suburban construction (and car-driven socialization) in the US fosters alienation (and how that alienation turns into latent hostility to strangers).
- MisterBastahrd 4y agoYou haven't thought about the possibility that it's not the suburbs but instead 24/7 news media combined with social media that might be a tad bit more to blame? Cars didn't make parents afraid for their kids. Lots didn't either.