♦ Where
people live who drive an hour to a well paying job.
♦ Where your neighbor'
s house is 100 ft from your own and both are 50 meters (164.041 feet) from the road.
♦ Where gated communities are built with 2 acre lots and the homeowners association is constantly in fear of non-conformity and
people using that land to grow their own
food as well as any landscape which is reverting to it'
s natural state.
♦ Where your neighborhood centers around a golf course and the closest retail is 4 miles (6.43737 km) away
♦ Where your zip code'
s tallest building rises 2 storeys and the population density never goes beyond 1,000
people per
square mile.
♦ Where rich white
people go in order to avoid ethnic minorities, same thing with their country clubs.
♦ Where the water table is irreversibly contaminated by all the lawn chemicals the residents use.
♦ Where the treeless lawn surrounding one'
s ranch house is used for parking, sports, and an area where one's many dogs and children can run wild and wreck havoc.
♦ Areas idealized by people like Frank Lloyd Wright and Joel Garreau (writer of Edge Cities).
♦ Areas reviled by people such as Paolo Soleri and James Howard Kunstler.
Land in exurban areas is used in the most wasteful, unsustainable and impractical ways. It'
s not at all uncommon for property owners to have a half acre of their spread paved over. I've
even heard of aviation enthusiasts