I&#x27;m not assuming that. If anything, I assumed that most people defending them <i>are</i> American, and that Americans are wrongly interpreting &quot;American suburbs suck&quot; as &quot;suburbs suck&quot; because American suburbs are the only ones they know.<p>Some people like them, sure. I suspect that much of it is just cultural momentum at this point, though, where people are unaware of the possibility of a different format, or don&#x27;t have the option available, and that given a choice to live in a Euro-style or American-style suburb that were otherwise in a similar situation, many Americans would choose the European-style one. Might even split 50&#x2F;50.