These sorts of articles are so <i>profoundly</i> boring, but somehow the whole &quot;Suburbia sucks&quot; thing recurs on here like clockwork.<p>If you don&#x27;t like the suburbs...don&#x27;t live in the suburbs? I personally love the suburbs. In fact, in the post-commuting world I think the suburbs are a better future model than dense living. At the same time I don&#x27;t declare dense living dead.<p>And as an aside, these sorts of articles virtually always take some incredibly myopic view and project it across the entire country or world. In suburbs where I live, appropriate retail is mixed in the suburb. I have walked, countless times, for freshly baked bread and a coffee at the local grocer. Many multi-resident buildings have mixed use where small shots are at the bottom. Etc. The world isn&#x27;t the 1950s.