Is city life getting you down? Sick of all the music venues, galleries, coffee shops, bars, architecturally significant buildings and diversity? Perhaps it’s time to move your ass to the ‘burbs! That’s right, according to an article on men.style.com, the suburbs are becoming more “city-like,” (without the stench of warm piss on the sidewalk) and the hip, urban dwellers are slowly, but surly finding their way towards homogeneous stucco homes and big box stores. It seems however that suburban city planners are more aware of the needs of today’s city dwellers and rather than creating strip malls and chain restaurants, instead they are making spaces for independent movie houses, cafe’s, single bars, etc.

According to the article by David Hochman, “in the past decade, the distinction between city and suburb has become blurred. “Commuter towns” in places like northern New Jersey, the eastern shore of Seattle’s Lake Washington, and Orange County, California—once considered cultural Siberia—are now filled with work-from-home hipsters who care about things like independent cinema and what Arianna Huffington has to say. Long-ignored suburban outposts are being rebuilt with cool arts facilities and retro-chic cafés. In short, the things we always thought we needed cities for—decent sesame noodles, fabulous eyewear, lesbians—are now available where once there were only Aunt Goldie and her mahjong group.”

Check out the top 6 city to suburban get-aways: Cities are the New Suburbs

Thoughts?

Is it Time to Move to the Suburbs? [men.style.com ]
Cities are the New Suburbs [men.style.com]

(thanks for the tip Andrew!)