I have no desire to live in a blue beehive city.
“I have no desire to live in a blue beehive city!
The Left is attacking middle class life across the world, but we see the war on single family homes and on the suburbs happening most directly in America and across the Anglosphere.
The reasons for this middle class life lies in our uniqueness in choosing this form of living. But it’s all about culture, and not about being “Anglo”. Immigrants to America eagerly fold into this lifestyle choice. I live in a suburban community 25 miles outside of Los Angeles where, while non-Hispanic whites constitute the largest group (45%), they are not a majority. There are large minorities of Hispanics and Asians, many of them first generation immigrants. They all opt to share in the American Dream of home ownership. And before this becomes a racial conversation, which today is where the Left takes everything, let’s be clear: this has nothing to do with “white flight.”...
The Left is attacking middle class life across the world, but we see the war on single family homes and on the suburbs happening most directly in America and across the Anglosphere. The reasons for this middle class life lies in our uniqueness in choosing this form of living. But it’s all about culture, and not about being “Anglo”. Immigrants to America eagerly fold into this lifestyle choice. I live in a suburban community 25 miles outside of Los Angeles where, while non-Hispanic whites constitute the largest group (45%), they are not a majority. There are large minorities of Hispanics and Asians, many of them first generation immigrants. They all opt to share in the American Dream of home ownership. And before this becomes a racial conversation, which today is where the Left takes everything, let’s be clear: this has nothing to do with “white flight.”...
One of our relatives in a good size MW metro area has seen her 15-20 minute commute each way go to 30+ minutes and worse on Fridays and Mondays. This has resulted in traffic jams across town.
She and her husband are from basically 2 large families, and many of them are looking at moving back into a rural area and working from home or a shop or from their homes.
The area, they are looking at has a bank, one restaurant/small grocery store/combo filling/service station and a lot of vacant stores on the little main street.
Good medical care is about 60-90 minutes away or less.
They can get home or office delivery from Amazon/Costco on most items from food to whatever.
Those of us born in the 15 years after WWII had, what I believe was, the best environment, communities and society. It was safe for children and adults and the opportunity and variety of open avenues of life were outstanding. The drug culture was ten years in the future, the progressives were in hiding as the communists they were.
Some areas had some cancerous segregationist elements still at work but the areas were know and shrinking.
Education was affordable but not confining — you could achieve a lot without a college degree but many learning paths were open to the tech and science outbreak to come.