| If you can because of the nature of your work, move out of the city and suburbs, back to the country. Abandon the idea of isolated nuclear family living towards more social small communities. Suburban life is terrible for every single happiness metric. Embrace as much nature as you can. A city park stroll on Sunday ain't enough. Many jobs still benefit from close proximity to other people and businesses, but cities have no business being 10+ million people and constantly growing, when many of us just spend most of our time behind a laptop screen. We're at the dawn of an enormous social and civil reorganisation after the massive migration towards cities started in the Industrial Revolution, yet no-one is spending much time thinking about it. The pandemic has massively accelerated the disillusion of city life by knowledge workers, but the only voice we can hear are bosses wanting the return of the status quo, with everybody back in their downtown offices. I would expect more open push-back from us than just grumbling about it on forums. Maybe it's only me, it feels like it's overdue but we're dragging our collective feet to reimagine better connection between the modern human and our natural roots, especially in the nascent era of climate awareness and loneliness epidemic caused by modern city life. |
Why do so many people want to live in the suburbs then? Are they all myopic and stupid?