{"id":137238,"date":"2023-06-04T13:02:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T06:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/suburbia-doesnt-have-to-steal-your-soul-just-ask-barbara-and-tom-of-the-good-life-sonia-sodha\/"},"modified":"2023-06-04T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T06:09:41","slug":"suburbia-doesnt-have-to-steal-your-soul-just-ask-barbara-and-tom-of-the-good-life-sonia-sodha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/suburbia-doesnt-have-to-steal-your-soul-just-ask-barbara-and-tom-of-the-good-life-sonia-sodha\/","title":{"rendered":"Suburbia doesn\u2019t have to steal your soul \u2013 just ask Barbara and Tom of The Good Life | Sonia Sodha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nOften pilloried, life in the suburbs can be uplifting. If only our homes were less uglyPoking fun at suburbia and its residents has long been a staple of popular culture. From the self-importance of Holloway-residing Charles Pooter in George and Weedon Grossmith\u2019s 1892 The Diary of a Nobody, to Tom and Barbara\u2019s zeal for self-sufficiency in Surbiton in the 1970s sitcom The Good Life, gentle digs at suburban living are a time-honoured British comic tradition.There\u2019s often a hint of snobbishness about it, too, that jars slightly with me as a child of suburbia. Monotonous houses, nosy curtain-twitchers, tedious commutes: the suburbs have a bad rep. Yet for my parents, everything they represented \u2013 a detached home, a garden, a garage \u2013 was firmly aspirational when they first moved to the UK as teenagers in the 1960s, and it was a huge source of pride when they eventually made it there with their two young daughters. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/jun\/04\/suburbia-doesnt-have-to-steal-your-soul-just-ask-barbara-and-tom-of-the-good-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suburbia doesn\u2019t have to steal your soul \u2013 just ask Barbara and Tom of The Good Life | Sonia Sodha<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Often pilloried, life in the suburbs can be uplifting. 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