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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love my suburban neighborhood. Our house is almost 40 years old and not huge but has been well taken care of. I work FT from home and kids take the bus to local school. Teen son and I take turns mowing lawn with electric mower. Kids walk or bike to and from neighborhood parks, pool, and friends homes. Our yard has many trees and native plants. I love gardening. We love having our dog here. Everything is great.

I hate city noise and air pollution. PPs already mentioned all the crime and vagrancy; those also do not appeal to me. All of these factors combined would make me super stressed.

I am not “conditioned” to prefer suburban living. How is it unnatural for a human to prefer a cleaner, quieter, safer and greener environment? It isn’t a “white” thing either, as evidenced by my neighbors of all colors and nationalities.[/quote]

You’re conditioned to think that suburban living is the only way to achieve the clean, quiet, safe, and green.

Not all suburbs are the same. I currently live in London (Zone 2, terraced house with a garden on a quiet street) and have visited friends in suburban Madrid, small town France, suburban Copenhagen, and a small city in The Netherlands. As well as walked the Camino in Portugal/Spain. We are now planning a move back to the US and I’m finding that there are less options for lifestyle choice in the US for families within children.

I can’t affordable, dense, clean, green, walkable to good schools and shops because they don’t exist due SFH zoning. Choosing to get around via anything but a car is a choice to drastically inconvenience myself.

I’m not arguing that one is better or worse, or that any of us should live one way or the other. Rather we as Americans haven’t really been offered proper choices. We’re choosing between options that were ultimately designed to benefit developers and car makers.

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