The Suburbs Will Die: One Man's Fight to Fix the American Dream

Re:The Suburbs Will Die: One Man's Fight to Fix the American... by modoc on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @02:11PM (#8103843)

FWIW my suburban town has almost no chain anythings. I can walk to local coffee shops (have to drive to a Starbucks). We have an amazing collection of local restaurants covering almost every possible cuisine. We have a great library, rail trails, public forrest and green spaces, a local CSA my wife bikes to once a week to pick up our veggies, and much more.

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Re:The Suburbs Will Die: One Man's Fight to Fix the American... by nilkn on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @02:38PM (#8104053)

I do agree that HN in general is too harsh on suburbs. However, I think this is quite far from typical, possibly as far as ufmace's post was from typical. Most suburbs are going to be in the middle somewhere.

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Re:The Suburbs Will Die: One Man's Fight to Fix the American... by superuser2 on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @04:19PM (#8104747)

I think we're talking about different things.

The kinds of suburbs people are lambasting here are almost by definition places where the only things in non-driving distance are houses and some basic amenities (schools, big box/grocery stores, maybe a library). Once you're to the point of having more than a couple of restaurants in walking distance (that aren't Perkins) that's not really what we're thinking of when we blast "suburbs."

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Re:The Suburbs Will Die: One Man's Fight to Fix the American... by protonfish on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @02:25PM (#8103942)

I am not sure that the suburbs you are talking about are the same suburbs everyone else is talking about.

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Re:The Suburbs Will Die: One Man's Fight to Fix the American... by umanwizard on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @02:33PM (#8104011)

His experience sounds a lot like Tucson. Everyone else's in this thread sounds a lot like Phoenix. I've lived in both for multiple years.

The point is, not all suburbs are the same. Some are a lot nicer to live in than others.

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