ricocheting around
Sep 8, 2023
The American Dream re: the large, modern house on an ample-size suburban plot of land turned out to be isolating … car-centric … expensive.
Disdained.
And then an impulse to flock back into the cities, where things are closer-by. There had been anomie and squalor there, so the city centers were gentrified.
The affluent drove up real estate prices to the point of exclusion.
Younger, not-yet-affluent professionals went to the nearby satellite centers (Brooklyn, Hoboken, Jersey City) … as transients.
Searching.
Suburbs, cities, exurbs, satellite centers … residences, jobs, relationships.
Ever searching.
