It’s just… drab.įifteen minutes away in one direction is a different municipality and school district where the homes are a generation newer, much larger, and the subdivisions are buffered by more nature and open space. It has ready access to all the same jobs, culture, and opportunity as anyplace else in the metro region. ![]() It’s typical of places all across the country that were leapfrogged as the prosperous middle class migrated to the next new place slightly farther out or boomeranged back to the city. "This suburb hasn’t held up well over the years. Meanwhile, Johnny Sanphillippo of wrote a more well thought out piece on a possible suburban future by examining a non-descript New Jersey suburb: Lewyn does acknowledge, however, that suburbs with less good schools, less low crime, lesser education levels and lower home values will not do as well. Good schools, low crime, high education levels and high home values will continue to insulate parts of suburbia from decline. Lewyn goes on to say that wealthier suburbs will have stronger prospects for continued prosperity because they are, well, wealthier. ![]() However, cheap housing alone is not enough to save a high-crime suburb such as Philadelphia's Camden or East St. Even in low-cost cities like Pittsburgh, people priced out of the most desirable urban neighborhoods might choose suburbs over less expensive (but also more socially troubled) working-class urban places. A second set of advantages relate to cost: in high-cost cities, many people escape the high costs of urban housing by moving to cheaper suburbs.
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