Many people choose to live closer to nature and the suburbs and exurbs provide that.  I could never live in a city despite it’s many advantages.  So let’s stop the divisive speech and unify for greater purpose.

Arabian Sinbad-

Nice link, and a reminder that this is a global pathogen and not a local
phenomenon.

“If we revitalize our urban areas, less people will be in the suburban areas.” - PoepleOVERgreed.

So where are the people living that got kicked out of their urban apartments because of this “revializing”?

Gentrification is swell for some but not for those who have seen their whole neighborhoods destroyed by an onslaught of Boomers and their decorators.

For the parallels between declining America and its spoiled child Israel, link up to:

Haaretz:  News Paper from Israel
Come visit Israel. Before it’s gone.
You’re going to have to hurry.
By Bradley Burston

Click the link to read the full article
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/come-visit-israel-before-it-s-gone-1.395767

peopleovergreed

I think you may have glossed over the point. Its not that people are huddling in urban areas to aviod having a mortgage and car payment, they do it now out of nessesity. A third of us used to be able to AFFORD to live in the suburbs, if we wanted to. But alas, in this corporatocracy that we now toil in, we no longer have that choice. Many don’t have it anymore because they never realized that the culture wars have been going on for nearly 40 years now, and the middle class just woke up with our backs on the canvass and asked “what happened?”

I believe the legacy American dream, the model of the suburban life-style has run its course. Thirty-something and below age groups are not interested in living in suburbs. In this economic climate you really must choose between a new car and a house payment, because having both means financial slavery. I really appreciate the growing new urbanism and walkable neighborhoods. If we revitalize our urban areas, less people will be in the suburban areas.