There's not a thing wrong with our older, close-in suburb. If I didn't want more land to work my dogs, and a smaller house now that the children are almost grown, I would be happy to live here for the rest of my life.
Some of the newer developments with the look-alike houses on tiny lots I find fairly ugly, but some people like them and that's their privilege in a free country.
I think these liberal authors and filmmakers just want to get rid of the comfortable middle class and are attacking them every way they can think of. Interferes with their vision of socialist paradise.
They just want everyone forced into government-provided, thug filled high rises in the urban gutters.
Everybody crowded into one place so the bureaucrats can count more numbers in their little fiefdoms. High prices, high taxes, force everyone from their cars and funnel them into dirty, crime ridden public transportation where everyone gets to the same place equally late.
A thousand permits, fees, and permissions to get before anything productive can be done, with a thousand brothers and cousins each getting a piece of the pie you worked for.
Dependency and entitlement. Just another great way to make life as difficult and expensive as possible for anyone who works for a living, and as easy and ghetto-fabulous as possible for those who don’t get up before noon.