City or burbs?

[gjg21]

just curious, where do you punks live?

urban issues and whatnot happen to be a big interest of mine (as well as my major.) fill me in.

[peloquin]

well.... a suburb city of a larger city... but its pretty city-ish i think :P

[remy]

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the concrete jungle produces the best beats, so most of us probably are drawn to city life.

I read a good short essay about suburban life in Douglas Coupland's "Polaroids from the Dead". It was about suburb life in general and the surreal suburb life in Brentwood California. It was where Marilyn Monroe offed herself and where O.J. Simpson "didn't kill" Nicole. He talks a lot about how, these days, people's lives can easily become "denarrated" ... where people in the middle to upper class suburb life have lots of things to fill their life with (money, fame, breakfast cereal toys etc.) but no structural meaningful story to their lives, which creates the feeling of being lost.

[diskofreak]

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i live/grew up in the suburbs,
but i hope to eventually move into the city :P

[gjg21]

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people in the middle to upper class suburb life have lots of things to fill their life with (money, fame, breakfast cereal toys etc.) but no structural meaningful story to their lives, which creates the feeling of being lost.

often very true. i may have to check out that book sometime.

[CrackedSun]

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the concrete jungle produces the best beats, so most of us probably are drawn to city life.

I read a good short essay about suburban life in Douglas Coupland's "Polaroids from the Dead". It was about suburb life in general and the surreal suburb life in Brentwood California. It was where Marilyn Monroe offed herself and where O.J. Simpson "didn't kill" Nicole. He talks a lot about how, these days, people's lives can easily become "denarrated" ... where people in the middle to upper class suburb life have lots of things to fill their life with (money, fame, breakfast cereal toys etc.) but no structural meaningful story to their lives, which creates the feeling of being lost.

could you point me in the direction of this essay? This stuff has really be interesting me recently, as with my constant movement from city to burb/rural life is starting to pose all sorts of questions to me. (last couple yrs---> suburban philly---->burb london--->Boston-->small town coastal NC--->NYC (some back and forth in there as well)
Anyway, I always used to consider the city far superior, but now i'm having feelings both ways. Just something thats been interesting me latley

[thezzapper]

i grew up in the the suburbs of new york city in new jersey. yuk! boring! boring as hell. been in the greatest city in the world since i was 18 years old - new york. wouldn't live anywhere else...

[nbpgt]

i now live in the one of the outer burbs (not the farthest by any means) but used to live in one of the burbs closer to downtown

[Steve Graham]

well.... a suburb city of a larger city... but its pretty city-ish i think :P

same here. its a bit rural-ish though

[gjg21]

suburb of a larger city is still a suburb.

unless you're talking about something like Evanston, IL or Bethesda, MD. Still suburbs, but more dense and urban than the average.

[remy]

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could you point me in the direction of this essay? This stuff has really be interesting me recently, as with my constant movement from city to burb/rural life is starting to pose all sorts of questions to me. (last couple yrs---> suburban philly---->burb london--->Boston-->small town coastal NC--->NYC (some back and forth in there as well)
Anyway, I always used to consider the city far superior, but now i'm having feelings both ways. Just something thats been interesting me latley

Its here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060987219/103-8492617-9981432?v=glance

Its actually a collection of essays and photographs about different things. The essay on Suburbia and Brentwood is the long one at the end of the book.

[naDJa]

inner burbs

[michaelbirney]

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downtown Cincinnati

[remoh]

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i live in the suburbs ... i like being away from the caos of the city but close enough were i can drive to get myself in trouble

[neoee]

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i live in the suburbs ... i like being away from the caos of the city but close enough were i can drive to get myself in trouble

^^^^ I'm with you there and housing prices are much more reasonable out in the burbs.