It seems like you just want to live in a rural area rather than a city, and are resentful that people want a city to be a functional city. Why ask a city to sta

It seems like you just want to live in a rural area rather than a city, and are resentful that people want a city to be a functional city. Why ask a city to stay rural when that's not the purpose a city serves? You have a strangely hostile relationship with small shops. Even the laziest suburbanite probably wouldn't single out local businesses as places they'd never go to, Costco being their favourite. That said, if you already live in the suburbs, most small shops end up being pretty awful chain stores, flavourless restaurants that serve people who favour convenience and predictable food, liquor stores, and commodity crap cafe's like Starbucks. So actually maybe none of your opinion is so surprising. Living in the suburbs is a kind of unimaginative antisocial hellscape When I visit my parents in the suburbs of my hometown, the closest cafe is about a 30min bus/walk, and the coffee is grotesque at best. So... so bad.