I am surprised to see all of the pro-suburbia comments here.  I enjoyed this article and found it lines up with many of my criticisms of suburbia.<p>The suburbs to me are a soul sucking place that gives me the heebie-jeebies.  With that said, my opinion reflects my experience living in Minneapolis.  When I visit other cities like Seattle or San Francisco, I am turned off by the ridiculous density and the inability to go to a coffee shop and not wait in a huge line (looking mostly at SF here).<p>As a white person who went to an inner city highschool where white people were the minority - I notice a huge difference in my world view than people who grew up in suburbs with predominantly white people.  The suburbs around Minneapolis absolutely disgust me.  I work in the western suburbs of Minneapolis and constantly deal with co-workers saying underhanded racist&#x2F;classist comments all the time.