… New Statesman | Bryan Appleyard: in defence of the British suburbs. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Suburb-bashing is one of the more tiresome clichés of our cliché-ridden era. When I was covering the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV, some years ago, I was invited to Sunday by a couple living in a development outside town. The view from their front door was of the snow-capped Ruby Range. I asked the husband what he thought about the notion, encountered in contemporary fiction, that suburban was largely empty and meaningless.His reply was priceless: "Guess I'm enjoying myself to notice how empty my life is."
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