The secret war between city dwellers and suburban dwellers

[Cicero]

I just wrote a ton on this and erased it. I made the long story short...

The war is a class war and I believe, stems from the social mores of the academic class.

You forgot one UT: Suburbanites are also obviously- breeders.

[glatt]

I'm caught in the middle and am at war with both of them. I'm well inside the Beltway and can walk easily to a grocery store and a couple restaurants. A couple of parks and bike paths too. I have ready access to public transportation. I also have a decent sized lush back yard and little traffic on my street. I have a driveway I can park in, and if I didn't, I would still be able to park in front of my house with no competition.

I sometimes have to go out into the real suburbs out by the Beltway to run an errand, and I can't stand it. It's just multi-lane drags with shopping plazas and car dealerships and tons of traffic and lots of red lights. It takes half an hour just to get from one place to another out there, and you are drained once you arrive. Every development is designed so all the traffic has to get onto a main road just to get from point A to point B, so all the main strips are horribly overcrowded.

If I have to drive downtown, it's still stressful, because I have to plan my route in advance. Have to figure out which one-way street or diagonal street to take, where I might find a place to park, where I won't get shot (not as bad these days.)

I work downtown, but it's easy to get to on public transportation.

So I dislike them both. Arlington rocks.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Glinda

Ok, but what if I (used to) live in North Hollywood but worked in .... BEVERLY HILLS? Would I still have been a white trash ho?

Hopefully.

Originally Posted by Cicero

You forgot one UT: Suburbanites are also obviously- breeders.

Around here the suburbanites are procreating a monster or three, but in the city they squeeze out 6, 8, 10 little thugs.

Originally Posted by glatt

Every development is designed so all the traffic has to get onto a main road just to get from point A to point B, so all the main strips are horribly overcrowded.

That seems to be the plan/fault of the local planning boards. By limiting the number of access points from each development to the rest of the world, they create choke points, partially to limit through traffic on the residential streets. It's for the children, you know.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Cicero

I just wrote a ton on this and erased it. I made the long story short...

The war is a class war and I believe, stems from the social mores of the academic class.

You forgot one UT: Suburbanites are also obviously- breeders.

Damn, girl, I'd have loved to read the full post.