Word: suburbias
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...have up to 60 single men being stuffed into homes of up to 900 sq. ft. That's not an exaggeration. Single-family neighborhoods have been turned upside down," says Levy. "It's very politically incorrect to say, but that's not what those homeowners signed up for in suburbia." Despite their grievances, however, many of those same working-class families have become addicted to the cheap labor. As a landscaper, Jeremy Samuelson has seen starting hourly wages for gardeners fall from $14 to $12 in the past decade, but he admits that he and his neighbors view cheap labor...
...earlier. The Asian immigrants' distinctive physiognomy may have made it more difficult for them to blend in, but at the same time, their high education and skill levels allowed them quicker entrée into the middle class. Instead of clustering tightly in urban ethnic enclaves, they spread out into suburbia, where they were often isolated. And it was there that their kids, now 20 to 40 years old, grew up, straddling two worlds?the traditional domain their recently arrived parents sought to maintain at home and the fast-changing Western culture of the society outside the front door...
...adapted from a Scott Phillips novel. It’s a nasty, biting little bugger, a film noir bejeweled with shards of sharp black comedy. Its seedy characters—linked together through mob ties—mingle aimlessly in squalid strip clubs and vast stretches of barren glacial suburbia. They’re all motivated by a common goal: escaping the tedium that lays thick all over Wichita, Kan. It’s a reverse “Wizard of Oz,” with all of the Dorothys and Totos desperately clawing over each other for a glimpse...
...with vapid pop punk. This insneeriority complex has played itself out in their recent videos. For “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” the band took on war and lost innocence. With their most recent six-minute-plus epic, “Jesus of Suburbia,” they focus on a subject nearer and dearer to them: love and loss among the over-eyelinered. The video’s protagonist, who hubristically claims in subtitled dialogue to be “nailed to a couch, suffering for [his] sins...
...least I’m friends with the 20 families on my block. I might not be able to find public transportation at 3 a.m., but I never hit traffic driving up my street. I cannot eat at the latest ethnic fusion restaurant, but I can go apple picking. Suburbia has reduced the choices I have to make in life, and in effect, simplified things. Of course, it would be foolish to say that Hamden has more going on than New York (it doesn’t) or is more diverse (it isn’t) or can provide...