These are the poignant lines uttered by a suburban mom on the verge. She’s Betty Draper, the young, blond, pretty seemingly perfect 1960 housewife in the critically… Read more “Mom on the Verge: “I can’t talk to anyone. It’s so horrible. I’m so sad.””
Category: Suburban studies
New Federal Report: Poverty Spreading to the Suburbs
The day after Black Friday when we were all supposed to be crowding Target, Best Buy, Macys, and the malls, spending money we might not have on… Read more “New Federal Report: Poverty Spreading to the Suburbs”
The suburbs are not doomed!
That’s the message of growth trend expert Robert Selbert, writing on the website, NewGeography.com. He refers to recent predictions that rising gas prices would make people consider… Read more “The suburbs are not doomed!”
Crazy in Suburbia 