Laurence Brown grew up in the UK with his vision of America supplied by Hollywood movies. Now he is an American living in a house in the suburbs of Chicago. Let's find out how his expectations stack up against reality. In this video, he focuses on dog walking, rectangles, and door-to-door salesmen.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
The Culture Shock of American Suburbia
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I live in Chicago suburbia as well, but our property is more like a pie shape than a rectangle.
Also, some suburbs did not want drivers to cut through neighborhoods, so the streets meander, so no rectangular streets there.
He mentions the grass--just wait until the annual summer heatwave when the grass turns brown unless you water your lawn. I am too cheap to water my lawn, so I get brown grass in the summer as well.
Well, I was born in this country and except for a few visits abroad have lived my entire life in this country. I have always considered suburbia as combining the worst elements of City living with the worst elements of rural living with a few unique worst elements thrown into the mix. For that reason alone I detest the suburbs.
Alas, I will not live to see this out of control social aberration pass, and who knows how many lifetimes before the damaged landscape will repair itself.
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