# lindsaybluth, please provide a cite

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**Created:** [March 30, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575 "2011-03-30T23:12:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_of_the_Lake)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/622 "2011-05-24T16:42:51Z")

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I don’t believe I’ve ever pitted anyone before (luckily this thread was already put in place), but [this post](http://boardstest.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13833958&postcount=116) in [this thread](http://boardstest.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=609416&page=3) bothers me due to the class based comments you are making.

Lindsaybluth,  
Could you please explain what you mean by this post?

I find that I can only read this as you saying:  
Rich suburban’s = okay  
Working class suburban’s = not okay

> [@What's up with the hatred of suburbia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-hatred-of-suburbia/582742/116):
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> _Affluent_ suburbs are really quite nice. They still close up shop earlier than the city and don’t have the same restaurant options but they are still nice places to live. Also what falls under these “older suburbs” category are suburbs in very socially progressive cities, like San Francisco.

> [@What's up with the hatred of suburbia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-hatred-of-suburbia/582742/116):
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> But it’s the 100k starter homes (Ryan homes, basically) churned out by the thousands in horrible, unplanned unincorporated areas that make me nuts. The 3-4 lane traffic is horrible _all the time_. The people universally do this: go to local college or trade school, graduate by 23, get married by 26, have 2 children before 30, get fat. The women often don’t work. Nobody travels except to see relatives. Everyone eats fake Mexican food or fake Chinese food for dinner out. They go to megachurches on Sunday.
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> I was volunteering at a Petco (for an unrelated charity) when 30 heads swiveled to the front - where a young black woman and a white guy were holding hands. That would never happen in the city itself.
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> In short, there is no intellectual curiosity, there is no drive to succeed nor authenticity of food or culture. The only interests are in maintaining the status quo in a “new” house and living paycheck to paycheck in a bland suburb away from the city (and scary brown people).
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> And all of that is universally reviled by the 'dope.

First of all, you judge quite liberally with a broad brush, and I find the comments you’ve made here to be both arrogant and dangerously ignorant.

The statements that jump out at me are your praise of these nice, older, affluent suburbs and disdain for 100k, starter homes owned by people living paycheck to paycheck and maintaining the status quo.

I ask you now, what is so horrible about living paycheck to paycheck and trying to maintain ones lifestyle?

Never mind the fact that you throw in the Petco story as proof that we suburbans are racist. I have my own story. I live in a suburb, so does my sister who dared to marry a brown skinned man and there has been nary a Petco full of people to stare at them in sight.

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