&gt; Suburbia exists because people want a quiet, relatively safe place for their kids to grow up.<p>And because it&#x27;s the only thing affordable. Which does not get mentioned enough.<p>I would <i>love</i> to put my family in a walkable urban environment. But I don&#x27;t have a $500k+ housing budget, so anything even remotely urban is completely out of the question, unless it&#x27;s in the heart of some gangland territory somewhere.