City or burbs?

#4821Post 1 of 272004-09-29

just curious, where do you punks live?

urban issues and whatnot happen to be a big interest of mine (as well as my major.) fill me in.

#267236Post 2 of 272004-09-29

well.... a suburb city of a larger city... but its pretty city-ish i think :P

#267237Post 3 of 272004-09-29

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the concrete jungle produces the best beats, so most of us probably are drawn to city life.

I read a good short essay about suburban life in Douglas Coupland's "Polaroids from the Dead". It was about suburb life in general and the surreal suburb life in Brentwood California. It was where Marilyn Monroe offed herself and where O.J. Simpson "didn't kill" Nicole. He talks a lot about how, these days, people's lives can easily become "denarrated" ... where people in the middle to upper class suburb life have lots of things to fill their life with (money, fame, breakfast cereal toys etc.) but no structural meaningful story to their lives, which creates the feeling of being lost.

#267247Post 4 of 272004-09-29

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i live/grew up in the suburbs, but i hope to eventually move into the city :P

#267250Post 5 of 272004-09-29

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[quote=remy";p="56729] people in the middle to upper class suburb life have lots of things to fill their life with (money, fame, breakfast cereal toys etc.) but no structural meaningful story to their lives, which creates the feeling of being lost.[/quote]

often very true. i may have to check out that book sometime.

#267254Post 6 of 272004-09-29

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[quote=remy";p="56729]the concrete jungle produces the best beats, so most of us probably are drawn to city life.

I read a good short essay about suburban life in Douglas Coupland's "Polaroids from the Dead". It was about suburb life in general and the surreal suburb life in Brentwood California. It was where Marilyn Monroe offed herself and where O.J. Simpson "didn't kill" Nicole. He talks a lot about how, these days, people's lives can easily become "denarrated" ... where people in the middle to upper class suburb life have lots of things to fill their life with (money, fame, breakfast cereal toys etc.) but no structural meaningful story to their lives, which creates the feeling of being lost.[/quote]

could you point me in the direction of this essay? This stuff has really be interesting me recently, as with my constant movement from city to burb/rural life is starting to pose all sorts of questions to me. (last couple yrs---> suburban philly---->burb london--->Boston-->small town coastal NC--->NYC (some back and forth in there as well) Anyway, I always used to consider the city far superior, but now i'm having feelings both ways. Just something thats been interesting me latley :BigSmile:

#267257Post 7 of 272004-09-29

i grew up in the the suburbs of new york city in new jersey. yuk! boring! boring as hell. been in the greatest city in the world since i was 18 years old - new york. wouldn't live anywhere else...

#267267Post 8 of 272004-09-29

i now live in the one of the outer burbs (not the farthest by any means) but used to live in one of the burbs closer to downtown

#267279Post 9 of 272004-09-29

[quote=peloquin";p="56721]well.... a suburb city of a larger city... but its pretty city-ish i think :P[/quote]

same here. its a bit rural-ish though :Wacko:

#267280Post 10 of 272004-09-29

suburb of a larger city is still a suburb.

unless you're talking about something like Evanston, IL or Bethesda, MD. Still suburbs, but more dense and urban than the average.

#267281Post 11 of 272004-09-29

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[quote=CrackedSun";p="56748][quote=remy";p="56729][/quote]

could you point me in the direction of this essay? This stuff has really be interesting me recently, as with my constant movement from city to burb/rural life is starting to pose all sorts of questions to me. (last couple yrs---> suburban philly---->burb london--->Boston-->small town coastal NC--->NYC (some back and forth in there as well) Anyway, I always used to consider the city far superior, but now i'm having feelings both ways. Just something thats been interesting me latley :BigSmile:[/quote]

Its here: [url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060987219/103-8492617-9981432?v=glance[/url]

Its actually a collection of essays and photographs about different things. The essay on Suburbia and Brentwood is the long one at the end of the book.

#267284Post 12 of 272004-09-29

inner burbs

#267286Post 13 of 272004-09-29

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downtown Cincinnati :Bingo:

#267291Post 14 of 272004-09-29

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i live in the suburbs ... i like being away from the caos of the city but close enough were i can drive to get myself in trouble :evil:

#267309Post 15 of 272004-09-29

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[quote=remoh";p="56796]i live in the suburbs ... i like being away from the caos of the city but close enough were i can drive to get myself in trouble :evil:[/quote]

^^^^ I'm with you there and housing prices are much more reasonable out in the burbs.

#267319Post 16 of 272004-09-29

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City of Calgary, close to Downtown, but a city of over 975,000 I used to live in the burbs of Calgary, I prefer city, everything is more convenient.

#267320Post 17 of 272004-09-29

I ponder on this one a lot. I live 5 days in London (best city in the world), but have to escape to my appartment in the country at the weekend.... need my quota of green hills....

The burbs scare the crap out of me in terms of small-town attitudes, but London is way too claustrophobic to be in 24/7

#267325Post 18 of 272004-09-29

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downtown toronto. it's close to the music :wink:

#267328Post 19 of 272004-09-29

[quote=peloquin";p="56721]well.... a suburb city of a larger city... but its pretty city-ish i think :P[/quote]

haha! that's what i was gonna say...

#267335Post 20 of 272004-09-29

[quote=peloquin";p="56721]well.... a suburb city of a larger city... but its pretty city-ish i think :P[/quote]

LOL... same here.

#267340Post 21 of 272004-09-29

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i live in the 'burbs in north jersey but i am like a 20 minute drive into nyc. i htink thats great. but i do wish i could afford to live in there though.

btw The 'Burbs is a great movie. :Bingo:

#267353Post 22 of 272004-09-29

20 mins from Cardiff.................

cant complain, used to driving to nights out all over the country from north and south, plus made 200% on our our in 3.5 years!

#267534Post 23 of 272004-09-29

suburb but pretty close to the city(5km outside city centre). The Reason I don't stay in the city itself..I live in Johannesburg, enough said.

#267539Post 24 of 272004-09-29

Cit, all the way. I was born in Toledo. Now I live in a suburb of toledo but it is big enough to be a city. Hopefully soon I will get the hell out of ohio and go to a real city that actually has stuff going on all the time.

#267544Post 25 of 272004-09-29

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Manhattan

#267568Post 26 of 272004-09-29

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see above

#267573Post 27 of 272004-09-29

in the san francisco town

Music madethis place,we just kept itgoing...