Opinion of "Sunbelt Suburban Sprawl"

[100% pro-life no matter what]

The types of suburbs in the South and Southwest that feature big houses that are widely spaced out in areas with low costs of living.  Almost every state from North Carolina to Arizona has this place somewhere.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Living in one, HA.

They were clearly built on the premise that people who don't drive are subhuman scum.

[heatcharger]

Traffic sucks big time, but FA on balance for turning the Sun Belt more Democratic.

[Goldwater]

Sunbelt = FA.

[JA]

HA. Cities beat Sunbelt Suburbs any day. The sprawl, strip malls, car dependency, and yuppies... ugh, no thanks.

[Torie]

I personally find it loathsome.

[Person Man]

I live in the ultimate SSS. It sucks.

[DC Al Fine]

I don't have a problem with it per se but:

The types of suburbs in the South and Southwest that feature big houses that are widely spaced out in areas with low costs of living. Almost every state from North Carolina to Arizona has this place somewhere.

The resource costs of this way of life are anything but low. Neither are the financial costs. Unfortunately, policy choices at the federal, state, and local level tend to externalize these costs.

If we allowed homeowners to bear the full cost of their sprawl, I wouldn't really care.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Makes me think of sun-baked asphalt, burnt grass, resource waste, and social atomization. HA. Why can't we all just live in rural hamlets surrounding northern industrial cities?

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Voted FA, but it depends. LA, for example, is insufficiently urbanized for its own good, leading to enormous population density for a metro area, but few skyscrapers.