The Surprising Reason Why Americans Are So Lonely

Re:The Surprising Reason Why Americans Are So Lonely by jbarciauskas on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @12:20PM (#1301913)

I stopped reading at "And they've paid equal, or even greater, attention to suburbia; in the developed world, after all, that's where most people live."

I don't think this is true. Google failed me but according to http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo... ), the plurality of people in the US live in "urban, urbanized area, central place" (39%), as opposed to "not in a central place" (29%) or "rural" (21%). And my experience is that the US is much more suburban than the rest of the developed world, Europe particularly. Seems a very odd thing to say. Turns out, most people actually live in cities, and have jobs other than writing this kind of nonsense.

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Re:The Surprising Reason Why Americans Are So Lonely by henrikschroder on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @12:46PM (#1301977)

If you stopped reading there, you completely missed the meat of the article, it wasn't about suburbia at all, it was about getting the size of businesses right.

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Re:The Surprising Reason Why Americans Are So Lonely by natrius on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @01:07PM (#1302047)

I'd be wary of trying to equate technical census terms with common definitions of related terms without citing their explanations. Both "urbanized area" and "not in a central place" probably don't exclude suburban areas.

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