What does, or did, life in the suburbs mean to you, as a child or an adult?

Question

Was there a sense of community or did it feel isolated?

Answer 1

Hot lazy sundays, lots of friends, mango trees, mulberry trees. swimming holes, long walks,the ice cream man, scruffy dogs, cricket games that all the neighbours played in, young and not so young. Coming home in winter to home made soup, yum,riding bikes, exploring the bush. raiding some one's strawberry patch, cowboys and indians,visits to nanna's house. These are just a few but make me realise just how good we had it.

Answer 2

I grew up in a suburb, and yes there was a sense of community, but not like that little town feel. My community was many times mistaken as being part of the city. I have moved but have decided to come back for that urban yet suburban feel. You'd be surprised how many other people feel close to you because they may of gone to the same high school but graduated a good 30 years before you, there is some kind of kinship between you just for going to the same school. It's like people slow down and smile and all the sudden you're best friends because they remember how nice it was living here.

Answer 3

I liked town much better as a child. Way more friends, a much better sense of community, funny people, even though we were poor or struggling.
I excelled in school, and sharing food off my plate lunch at school with the same kid really made my day. We often wore the same clothes over and over, or shared clothes, without blaming each other for it.
Moving to the suburbs was a mistake in some ways, but we DID have a better environment to live in, albeit way less friends, (maybe negative friends with how many kids actually hated us?) and hardly any chance to do anything to make money, even looking for pop bottles to collect got kind of rare, longer distances to go places, etc.
Worst of all, there existed a stigma, (where there had been none before), about what we wore.. It seemed anyone who was anyone was always headed for the Gap.
But, the town we lived in (Lima Ohio) was going to hell in a handbasket, and it was good to leave. Now, the inner city is a slum, or what is left of it... My parents had the foresight to get out when the getting was good.
Sad to see it go, but I always liked the town, and I still do miss it, especially the people. I still miss them, though most of them either don't exist anymore, or the ones who stayed are living a horrible crime-ridden existence. ..

Answer 4

dear friend i am born and brought up in suburbs,to me suburbs is home,city to me means traffic and late to come back to home.