I'm sitting here watching "The End of Suburbia" as I'm perusing DU and enjoying my morning java..... [View All]

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..... and one of the narrators of the film, discussing subdivisions, says, "Do you notice that they're always named after the very thing they've destroyed?"

..... and I thought about it....he's absolutely right. They've always got names like "Forest Hills" or "Country Farms" or "Maple Orchards" or "Pine Ridge" even though they've cleared away most of the trees and all of the "farms" to create them.

And I completely agree with the premise of the movie: Suburbs were among the worst ideas in the history of worst ideas.