What do you hate about subdivisions?

[coloradodem2005]

THey have a tendency to be very generic and very much the same. Decentralized. No sense of community. It is very easy to be isolated in the suburbs. They seem like fear centers. There always seemed to be something I missed living in the suburbs. The problem is I am stuck there right now.

"Subdivisions"
Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone

Nowhere is the dreamer
Or the misfit so alone

Subdivisions -
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions -
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight

Somewhere out of a memory
Of lighted streets on quiet nights...

[mark414]

1. "the suburbs is more than just an unfortunate geographical location,

it is an unfortunate state of mind. it's the american state-of-mind, founded on fear, conformity, shallowness of character and dullness of imagination."

"i say bomb the suburbs because the suburbs have been bombing us for at least the last forty years. they have waged an economic, political and cultural war on life in the city. bomb the suburbs means let's celebrate the city. let's celebrate the ghetto and the few people who aren't running away from it."

- William Upski Wimsatt; "Bomb The Suburbs"

[coloradodem2005]

2. Might I throw the country into the equation.

Or any unpopulated area. Because the suburbs just sprawl out and take over all that land.

[mark414]

5. you should check out that book

it's really good, he wrote another one too called 'no more prisons'

he is also involved (now) with the league of pissed off voters and helped write/edit their pre-election book, "how to get stupid white men out of office"

definitely a guy that everyone should know

[Abelman]

3. What's to like?

I used to live in a suburbanlike area. NOt too many houses, not quite country but not suburbs - yet. Huge woods behind me, lots of room to play and have fun. Most of my early memories are of those woods.

They're gone now.

[coloradodem2005]

7. Don't like the suburbs because they took your woods away.

Hell, even growing up in the suburbs, there was a baron road I used to walk my dog on and now it has a whole bunch of shit on it. Offices and stuff

[Abelman]

10. Number one

in a long list. Number one, as it was the first time I tried to stop the sprawl. It involved throwing rocks at bulldozers while the workers were on lunch break.

It didn't work.

[Huckebein the Raven]

4. The lack of the sense of community

[coloradodem2005]

8. You mean the lack thereof?

[Huckebein the Raven]

9. Yeah. Sorry about that

let me correct that.

[SerpentX]

6. Homeowners Associations