I think the big negative stereotypes about the suburbs come a lot from media and aren't based in much reality. People moved to them because they wanted space for a family and it was affordable, safe with good education options. They aren't as affordable now, but if you want a family nothing comes close to a suburban home other than if you want to live a more rural life which is rare.
Media is made by people in big cities who aren't focused on rising a family, that idea of moving to the suburbs would seem like hell for them, so they find the "bad" things about it to portray in the media and skip over any of the good stuff except for nostalgia (Wonder Years.) The media they make justifies their feelings about "Suburbs bad" even if their portrayal isn't very real. Its a total outsider's take on what a suburb is like to live in and why the creator of the media doesn't want to live there.
Things like a lack of public transport which is so often talked about why urban areas are losing to suburbs, just aren't family friendly and don't make for a good living situation in the urban core for a family anyway. It is just an amenitiy for the same people who would make media about how lame suburbs are. It will increase how many people who don't fit the suburban demographic to jump back into the urban core, but it wont make families desire living in the city.
On crime, even if there is more crime in suburbs being further away from people, you wont be confronted with it as often (your neighbor being the victim of a crime is less likely if you have less neighbors) so it will feel nicer to most families.
There are cons to suburbs, but the dread of them doesn't come from the people who want to live in them which is most Americans.
Also when you pointed out "The marriage rate per 1,000 women has fallen from 76.5 in 1965 to 31.2 in 2022." This is a terrifying statistic!
Thanks Phillip! Yeah there are definitely a lot of negative stereotypes that do suspiciously come from urbanites. Some true, some false, most exaggerated.
Damn, this is a great one.
I think the big negative stereotypes about the suburbs come a lot from media and aren't based in much reality. People moved to them because they wanted space for a family and it was affordable, safe with good education options. They aren't as affordable now, but if you want a family nothing comes close to a suburban home other than if you want to live a more rural life which is rare.
Media is made by people in big cities who aren't focused on rising a family, that idea of moving to the suburbs would seem like hell for them, so they find the "bad" things about it to portray in the media and skip over any of the good stuff except for nostalgia (Wonder Years.) The media they make justifies their feelings about "Suburbs bad" even if their portrayal isn't very real. Its a total outsider's take on what a suburb is like to live in and why the creator of the media doesn't want to live there.
Things like a lack of public transport which is so often talked about why urban areas are losing to suburbs, just aren't family friendly and don't make for a good living situation in the urban core for a family anyway. It is just an amenitiy for the same people who would make media about how lame suburbs are. It will increase how many people who don't fit the suburban demographic to jump back into the urban core, but it wont make families desire living in the city.
On crime, even if there is more crime in suburbs being further away from people, you wont be confronted with it as often (your neighbor being the victim of a crime is less likely if you have less neighbors) so it will feel nicer to most families.
There are cons to suburbs, but the dread of them doesn't come from the people who want to live in them which is most Americans.
Also when you pointed out "The marriage rate per 1,000 women has fallen from 76.5 in 1965 to 31.2 in 2022." This is a terrifying statistic!
Thanks Phillip! Yeah there are definitely a lot of negative stereotypes that do suspiciously come from urbanites. Some true, some false, most exaggerated.