tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19635991.post113501370463653236..comments2023-10-12T08:29:16.971-04:00Comments on Haze Gray and Underway !!!: If you have a niche, scratch it...Citizen Deuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425085335850663316noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19635991.post-1135186343574465622005-12-21T12:32:00.000-05:002005-12-21T12:32:00.000-05:00But were they not also created to cocoon? To creat...But were they not also created to cocoon? To create an existance that denied diversity? A virtual Greenwich Village, as it were? To protect themselves, and by extension, their children, from any culture or idea other than own?(and by that I mean religious, conservative, capitalist, carnivorous, republican, non-socialist?)....Being a sub-urban dweller, I cannot fathom such a sterile and sheltered life as those in the urban realms seek. It is in a sense, tribal....Citizen Deuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18425085335850663316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19635991.post-1135028933713618662005-12-19T16:48:00.000-05:002005-12-19T16:48:00.000-05:00NO, the exurbs stemmed from a desire to have a con...NO, the exurbs stemmed from a desire to have a contiguous living area of consistent socio-economic structure. They were market driven by folks who were weary of wildly varying zoning issues and crime. <BR/><BR/>This is separate from the development of the suburbs in the era of "white flight" in which the centers of cities were abandoned in the wake of the unrest of the late 60s.Citizen Deuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18425085335850663316noreply@blogger.com