~There’s really nothing conservative about the suburbs. In fact, I’d suggest that what I call the “suburban mindset” has played a major role in the decline of the U.S. over the last 75 years.
Your first sentence says it all. Most people I know who have lived all of their lives in the suburbs put “comfort and safety” above all else — including freedom and liberty. People who live in urban rat-holes often behave like caged animals, while people who live in the “comfort house pets that have gotten used to having someone feed them. ~
Yeah, right..../s
It must be a primary reason why every communist government puts that much efforts to herd everyone into inner cities, then raze a family home suburbs to replace it with tracts of 9 to 30 story apartment buildings.
It is so cool, you don’t need a car as far as there is a light rail to take you to your factory and there is a groccery store on the first floor of your building, and a hair salon in a next building and a dentist in another.
It would be an officially bad day when someone in your government decides that your community haven’t behaved well, so there are empty shelves in a grocery on your first floor, heating, power and plumbing are turned off by the single switch for a thousands of people. You would like to get elsewhere to get some food and take shower but train doesn’t stop at your station anymore, and you have some 20,000 hungry, dirty and desperate people running around wild on a tiny block of a dozen highrise appartment buildings.
How would you like it?
"Suburbs" as we know them aren't very common in older, established countries. They never played a major role in a nation's economy until the post-WW2 period in North America.