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Jeez, you'd hate it here then :-)

Looking out my window, I can't even see another house. If I twist my neck, I can see a neighbor's barn about half a mile away, though.




That sounds quite rural - not suburban at all - and I am sure it is a lovely place to spend time!

It is sprawling, car-dependent, low-density development I can't abide, the kind of cul-de-sac-ridden suburbs the US has been building around its urban fringes for the last 80-odd years. It feels suffocating to be surrounded by mile after mile of other people's stuff, with nowhere to go but strip malls and nothing to do but drive from one parking lot to another. People talk about wanting a house with a yard, but when that yard is the only place you can be without justifying your presence there by participating in some transaction, it can feel like a very confining space indeed.




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