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- Aug 14, 2017
I see older suburbs--e.g. places that were already not rural before WWII, so the inner ring around old Eastern and Midwestern cities--as being mostly fine. They have public transit, sidewalks, some tall-ish buildings, relatively close together homes, some sort of walkable business district, and generally developed relatively organically. The post war, sprawl out into the cornfields, subdivision style suburb? Bad.I think the real lesson in all of this is that rural and urban lifestyles are both valid and valuable in their own ways, but suburbia is just a exceptional hellscape of Boomers getting fat at chain restaurants and should be nuked.