Property News · June 5, 2016

Suburbia is changing fast – is it time to appreciate it?


Suburbanites once fled to the city. Now the city has caught up with the suburbs and mugged them for their walletsIt’s that sugary time of year when I emerge from the station into a mown-grass pink-skied evening; the time when suburbs really come into their own. Long days, wide streets – I am faintly euphoric until I remember my existential crisis.If you know me in real, you will have heard me boring on about this. I will have held your wrist as I described my return to the postcode where I grew up and bored on about the loss of my dreams. It was never meant to be this way, I will have said, enjoying the drama of the sentence. What I mean was: I never thought I’d return so fast to a life, though lovely, that I’d gratefully left behind. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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