Re:DHH: Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco?
by wanorris on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @10:48PM
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> I grew up in the suburbs and never met anyone who met that stereotype.
I've definitely met those people in Texas.
Re:DHH: Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco?
by kingkongrevenge on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @11:04PM
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> makes family life much easier.
In the suburbs 15 year olds are still tethered to their parents for transportation. It's ridiculous. Realistically kids are tethered even longer than that as a third or fourth car is not an option for many families. How does it make life easier to be stuck chauffeuring teenagers around for years? Move somewhere they can walk and take public transit from around age 10.
I grew up in the suburbs and never met anyone who met that stereotype. Suburban homes are cheaper than their urban counter part in terms of floorspace and acreage which is important if you are raising children. I've never met a family where both parents worked in order to afford their home and I'm not speaking of very wealthy people either.
What suburbs offer is a quiet, out of the way place, with lots of room, which makes family life much easier.
Then again, I live in Virginia so I might be confused. There's no distinction between city/suburb/rural county around here, and one never really existed.