Posted on 12/27/2008 5:53:20 AM PST by VU4G10
bump for later read.
My boring suburb is full of interesting people, too. Yes, all the houses are pretty much alike on the outside, but so what? Only liberals define people by the house they live in, and not who they are, what their interests are, and how they contribute to the community.
People who used to live in apartments, or trailers, or Eritrea or Russia or Ecuador, or those sophisticated and individualistic cities in the north where they had to barricade themselves in their houses, are mighty glad to be living here instead.
Oh...and the reason there's Oscar talk about this movie? The wife tries to abort their child herself, bleeds out and dies. A couple move out to the 'burbs in the bad ol' 50s, have "conformity" steal their souls and keep them from going to Paris, and the wife dies because abortion is illegal. It's hard to imagine a movie Hollywood would like more, unless it featured George W. Bush traveling back in time in his flight suit to waterboard them.
Although I like having some dirt to put plants in -- I have trouble with that in an urban environment. When we lived in midtown in a little apartment, my rickety balcony nearly collapsed from the weight of all the flowerpots.
The downside of moving to the country will be that I will have to purchase a tractor to mow the front yard. Either that, or leave it in woodlands. Which will mean woodlot management (something we had to do when we had 1 1/2 acres of woods in the middle of urban Atlanta -- that's a long story, we fell into the opportunity).
Well, complications keep life interesting! We have gardens front and back, with mixed results ... only so much you can do with habanero peppers and Japanese eggplant. This year, unidentifiable stuff (and giant sunflowers) came up from seeds that fell out of the bird feeder.
I’d like to move to the country, but it’s never worked out that way. Someday ... 2030? ... all the kids will leave home, and we can get a tiny house and keep a dozen outdoor cats. Or maybe the Ares Colony will be ready by then.
Why?
We have very little sun at our current location -- old suburb = Very Large Trees and Lots of Shade -- so I'm limited to ferns, hostas, shade-loving flowers, azaleas & rhododendrons, and so forth. My one patch of good sun is given over to my herb garden - gotta have those to cook with.
Another part of where to live is driving distances to what you do. Everything I do is in the city, and a lot of it is downtown. Unless I go shopping, this is as far west as I ever go. And right now, the main highway is closed, so getting into the city is a lot easier than getting out to the county.
What’s an “art car”?
I saw the first TV news hit piece on suburbs way backin the late 1960’s or early 1070’s.
Suburbs are much better than apartments. Small acreages are better than both. I have lived in all three.
I just let the chickens out of their pens, the dog is barking, the cats are crying. The squirrls are chattering, the hawks are flying and the an eagle just flew over.
I wish I had a few calves or pigs to go along with this. So to make myself useful I will fire up the welding machine and make something useful just for the fun of it.
Maybe I will pop off a few rounds at the target in the pasture.
Yes, you're right, that's an overgeneralization. People with modest incomes and large families can also live in small and/or very old houses in high-crime neighborhoods with nowhere to shop or park ... unless someone decides to turn them in for running an unlicensed daycare center populated by their own children.
I agree. I hate suburbia. In my experience, it’s a haven for custard-brained TV- and car-worshipers who are afraid of anything that doesn’t have ketchup on it. As they say in Sheffield, “there’s nowt to do”.
Such a place may be okay for some, and I say God bless them, but give me the city any day.
OK. But why hate the middle class which has made this country? And although I know that the Left’s policies are against the middle class, it does not make sense to me.
Yes, the public space gives you the warm and fuzzies.
Psychedelic paisley and flowers painted all over a Studebaker? (Muppet Movie :-).
It’s our Christian values they despise. You cannot easily control people who believe in something higher than man or government.
However, most people seem to love sprawl, and don't mind wasting gas driving several miles everyday to do chores. To each his/her own...
“If the Liberals stopped screwing up the cities, more reasonable people might choose to live there”
You’ve probably gone right to the heart of the matter.
Liberals can never take ownership of their screw-ups.
If their mismanagemet drives people out of the city, then it is the fault of the people who leave.
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