“$3 to $4 gas has made the long commute to the cities unworkable for all but the highest paid execs or Government apparatchiks.” Excellent point. People seem to prefer whistling past the graveyard rather than confront realities which have been with us for decades. And many just have a pathological hatred of cities for various bad reasons.
You mean "various bad reasons" like the urban youth (Read that: young black thug gang-banger) that tried mugging me on the corner of Clark & Jackson in downtown Chicago a few weeks ago while I was on my way to work, and instead got his ass kicked for his trouble?
That type of "various bad reason?"
I'm more than happy to live out here "in the boonies" away from the crap that goes on in "urban America" on a daily basis. At least I know my kids are safe walking around unlike the "urban areas."