The American Suburbs Are A Giant Ponzi Scheme

[ABM]

Or so they say....

http://www.grist.org/sprawl/2011-06-22-the-american-suburbs-are-a-giant-ponzi-scheme

 

[PapaG]

Our lords won't be happy until we all live in 20' x 20' studio apartments in densely populated urban areas, with only public transit for transportation, limted to one child, while they go frollick in the Hamptons after getting rid of us riff-raff.

 

[ABM]

Our lords won't be happy until we all live in 20' x 20' studio apartments in densely populated urban areas, with only public transit for transportation, limted to one child, while they go frollick in the Hamptons after getting rid of us riff-raff.

No doubt. That's what they were effectively trying to ram down my throat in the Clackamas County Energy Stewardship Program I was recently enrolled in.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Our lords won't be happy until we all live in 20' x 20' studio apartments in densely populated urban areas, with only public transit for transportation, limted to one child, while they go frollick in the Hamptons after getting rid of us riff-raff.

woot! better than living in the fucking burbs!

 

[PapaG]

woot! better than living in the fucking burbs!

The entire LA area is a bunch of connected suburbs. Downtown LA is a joke.

 

[blazerboy30]

The entire LA area is a bunch of connected suburbs. Downtown LA is a joke.

What is this "downtown LA" you speak of?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

The entire LA area is a bunch of connected suburbs. Downtown LA is a joke.

not as much as you would think. its not even close to portland but its been growing quite well the last 5 years or so.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

The entire LA area is a bunch of connected suburbs. Downtown LA is a joke.

True, but its not so much of the hell of tract housing.