Wednesday, April 26, 2023

The Culture Shock of American Suburbia



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.


2 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. 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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