A hearty thank-you to all of you who have reported in from the Burbs to refute this article.
Burbs are much better than cities but they are also inefficient. Our move to them over the last few decades since WWII has been haphazard. It would have been so nice and logical to have thought ahead enough to make them modular with a hub and spoke system of efficient mass transportation instead of tens of thousands of acres of moving parking lots we have dubbed as freeways.
There is a way to remedy the situation but it will not come from the dumocrats.
The key to the suburbs (assuming you don’t have a job *in* the suburb) is living at the “end of the line” of a mass transit system.
I live in a very outer suburb of SF and I love my BART commute to SF; I get a nice quiet hour to read. I’m thinking of moving to Northern Virginia and buying in a suburb there (better schools, for one thing), and again, buying near the very last Metro stop.
There’s no reason to do tons of driving just because you are in a suburb. And I don’t drive to shop; I use safeway.com and get all my groceries delivered to me.