Bush carried 97 of the nation's 100 fastest-growing counties

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more reason why I fcking loathe suburbs.

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That's a great idea. Anything to force people back into the cities. Suburban sprawl is a cancer.

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far superior to such a sterile and bland life.

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the suburbs are to blame for urban decay. That's why they are evil.

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Too see why I hate suburbs so much, all one needs to do is take the drive on US-169 which connects my city to Minneapolis. One of the cities you go through is Belle Plaine. It's still a small town of only about 3000, and is fairly close to the rural farm my mom grew up on. Driving through it on the road, it looks like your typical Minnesota rural town, a farming equipment store, a small cafe, and typical housing types. This is basically what the city was 30 years ago when my mom visited it and had friends there. Unfortunatley, if you look to each side, you can see some awful subdivisions far off on each side. Full of the boring white houses that all look the same. It's like someone took two completely different towns and rammed them together. Unfortunately the subdivisions keep getting bigger each time I drive through. You almost always see a house being built. Same with Shakopee which is further north. You see what was once a normal town at one point, and loads and loads of identical white houses for the rest of it. This is basically what EVERY suburb in the Twin Cities area about 20 miles from the city proper is like. And they keep expanding like a cancer.

Unfortunately my city has started a little bit of the same. We have some awful subdivisions sprouting up too.