Environmentalists call them empires of excess that eat open space and worship the automobile. Novelists and filmmakers assume that behind every picket fence lurks misery, isolation and alcoholism. There are all types of people in the suburbs and not everyone in the suburbs thinks that suburbia is the pits. I have to agree with the article. Suburbia is a great place for many people.
People enjoy houses that all look the same and oversized cars.
Many suburbanites are only too happy to grow green lawns that are treated with toxic herbicides and pesticides. Perhaps even if people living in suburbs that are strictly regulated by a home owners associations were given the freedom to do just as they please with their houses they would not make any drastic changes. I would be very surprised if more than a handful of people in the whole suburb did something drastic like paint their house or rip up their lawn. The majority of the other characters seem content to be in suburbia, especially the adults. Nick Wilson brings up the point of the declining numbers of voters in his project.