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...that they ruefully admit is not always realized. Suburban teen-agers are impressively unhappy with their surroundings: nearly three-fifths are "often bored," and 43% say that they would like to live somewhere else when they are no longer dependent on their parents. At least among the offspring of suburbia, the age of ecology has modified the urbanizing tradition that led their ambitious parents to the big city to seek their fortune. Of the kids who want to live elsewhere, more than half-54%-would prefer a more rural to a more urban setting. Says David Riggs, 16, of Virginia...
...increasing self-sufficiency and sense of satisfaction, there is a notably less cheery underside to suburban life. Many have found that suburbia shares the same problems as the cities, though possibly less severely. Beyond taxes, the complaints of suburbia make a litany that any city dweller would find familiar...
MORES AND MORALS. Despite occasional flurries that make headlines, sex education in the schools is not an urgent issue in suburbia: 78% are for it, though almost half-45%-do not even know whether their schools teach it or not. As for the stereotype of suburban swingers, suburbanites are not convinced: 86% feel that most wives in the community are faithful to their husbands, and 79% believe that most husbands reciprocate. Teen-agers reject premarital sex, 56% to 31%. Only 8% of suburbanites report that their neighbors do a lot of partying; 58% say that they personally go to parties...
...POOR. On the suburban evidence, President Nixon was politically wise to shoot down a HUD proposal to encourage construction of low-income housing in suburbia. The idea is distinctly unpopular. In suburbs where there is no low-income housing today, almost half the residents are against it (v. 38% favorable and 13% undecided): in high-income suburbs, opposition is strongest (68% to 22%). Only 26% of those interviewed said there already were low-income projects in their community...
Whether white suburbanites like it or not, the suburban scene is being altered. Blacks are moving to the suburbs in growing numbers, although the white influx over the past decade has been so great that the percentage of blacks in suburbia has risen only imperceptibly-4.5% overall in 1970 v. 4.2% in 1960. As of 1968, however, there were proportionately more poor blacks in the suburbs than in the cities. Industry, too, has been deserting the central city for the suburbs...