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I find suburban life to be an extremely "mind-numbing" and isolating experience. Lack of decent public transportation within the suburb and to other towns and cities, lack of diversity, lack of places where I could walk instead of having to get in the car, and lack of cultural activities have made my suburban life extremely boring and unchallenging.
And it seems to me that such isolation and lack of intellectual challenge have caused most people in their suburbs to focus on such trivial things. Just watch or attend a suburban council meeting. It seems that suburban life makes people lose touch with other aspects of life and the rest of world while making their houses and their "property values" as well as "fitting in" the main focus of their lives. As the introduction of a cable series puts it brilliantly: "Ticky, tacky little boxes. They all look the same. They all act the same".