Suburbia exists because people want a quiet, relatively safe place for their kids to grow up. I didn&#x27;t realize this until I had children myself. I remember reaching my teenage years and cursing the dull, boring, culturally bankrupt suburbian neighborhood I grew up in. I left the minute it became feasible.<p>Fast forward to now, and I&#x27;m right back in the &#x27;burbs, in a house where my kids have access to safe streets, parks, and decent schools. I realize now that it was never my parents&#x27; responsibility to raise me in a place I would find interesting, but to give me the best possible start in life they could. If I can give my kids a similar start, I hope they can safely reach the age where they can go off and experience the adventure of the big cities and abroad when they&#x27;re ready, just like I did.