[Serial_Worrier]

link Mad-max style coming to suburbia near you....

[Cashmere]

And it's going to keep getting worse.

That's the scary part.

Home values are going to keep dropping and dropping and dropping.

Some poor fools actually believe scam shops like the NAR when they say, "it appears we're near the bottom - good time to buy."

I think they're close.

I'd amend it, scatological, to say, "it appears we're near the bottom - good time to put on the biohazard suit to avoid direct contact with the discharge."

[aldente]

Cashmere!

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Albente

[ColossalContrarian]

Great article, straight out of The Long Emergency I think some suburbs can be saved with light rail but others will fade instead of "the inner city gangland" we'll have "the outer city suburbs"

The article even says McMansion, that' the first I've seen the MSM acknowledge the word. It'll be in Webster’s by 2009...

[Serial_Worrier]

It's already in Wikipedia: link

[3aidlillahi]

Plus, some suburbias are different than others ( I'm not familiar with California's ) because I certainly live in suburbia and most certainly don't need to move to be closer to work or a grocery store, or a community, or the kids schools or anything. Maybe I'm already in a different kind of suburbia than the ones where people accepted 60 mile one way commutes to get a cheaper house?

I'm with you. I've lived in two suburbias and neither are all that bad. My first one was about 7-10 miles from town center (the town was pretty spread out) and it was rural. Not the worst thing, but pretty good also, especially if I lived there long term (good farm land, close to rail lines and town, etc).

Now I'm about 4 miles to my nearest town center, 2 miles from the grocer, 1.5 miles from a mall, and 7-10 miles (depending if I take the bus) from my school and work. Very commutable on a bike. Mass transit is shit, but we've got enough money that it's possible for a transition before it gets too bad (doubtful it will go through).

But from what I've read about Western suburbia, it sounds like Hell. Who wants to spend 50 minutes each way to work for five days a week? And then have to go 10 miles to the store, school, dentist, etc.?

I didn't see any references to Mad Max in the article

I doubt we'll ever see Mad Max in an article. A bit too doomerish for the always-optimistic media. Same goes for Easter Island, cannibalism, etc. Just too "icky" for most people.
But it was pretty clear that he was talking about the vandalism, crime rates, "ghettoization" of the suburbs, etc.

[Serial_Worrier]

The so-called McMansion, he said, will become the new multi-family home for the poor.

Are you kidding? All those stinky dirty non-white people???? no way myen!
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