Posts with tag suburbia

Since almost the day they were born, suburbs have been criticized for their plain vanilla sameness. Is the downturn causing the landscape to become even more look-alike? Faced with declining demand for new homes and a glut of inventory, home builders are cutting house plans from their portfolios and standardizing on... Continue Reading »

Part of the promise of suburbia was its economic homogeneity. Move to Levittown in the 1950s, say, and you would be surrounded by people just like you: middle class, gainfully employed, and generally on the way up. In fact, suburbs have often been criticized for separating people by social class, with isolated wealthy... Continue Reading »

Call it Male Home Ownership Dissatisfaction Syndrome (or, MHODS, for these pharmaceutically abbreviated times). Or maybe just a bad epidemic of Buyer's Remorse. After seeming to embrace the many "joys" of home ownership -- mowing the lawn, retreating to the finished basement to watch football, unclogging blocked toilets... Continue Reading »