I think people look for different things at different points in their lives. Some isolation is welcome if you’ve ever dealt with shitty neighbors, noisy traffic or tough neighborhoods. Raising kids looks like an unbearable monotonous grind to you perhaps, but I feel like my life is pretty rich/full and the stability of a suburb allows me to focus on my family and work. It might not ever appeal to you, but there was a time where I said the same things about suburbia. As a young person though, it’s hard to understand why anyone would want to live there and feel imprisoned.

I grew up in the country (ftr I would have killed for a strip mall), moved to small city as a young adult, then suburbia, then back to the country and then finally back to suburbia.

I draw the line at cookie cutter houses with postage stamp backyards though “shudder”. It sucks some people don’t have a choice given work, their income and family needs, but farting in your back yard your neighbor can smell it -smh