Suburbs

Suburbia is a promised land. A Land in which one can have their own space, home, community. The ideal of suburbia was never the actual out come. When looking at suburban communities it makes me laugh to read of the promises it was meant to give. Suburbia is a surreal attempt at creating a sense of environment. Yes some of us in suburbia have a yard but our yard is cut into a small square with bushes that are not natural but trimmed to frame the beautiful house that is built on the property. Is that really a natural setting of course not it is an attempt of man's triumph over nature. Ray and Shirley Tinkham’s idea of their new home is much different than today's Suburbanite experience. Yes it was a change from the farming ways of the old and the functionality of the home as well as a push to what we know about suburban living today. However there was still somewhat of a sense of the natural where as today suburbia is a gridded square piece of perfectly cut grass and perfectly hedged plant life with a boxed home looking similar usually to all the other homes on the block. I have a friend that lives in a development in the richer part of my home town and I always laugh when I drive in to her complex because if it was dark I would most likely pull into someone else's driveway because it looks as thought someone took a stamp of one type of home and just punched it over and over again into the landscape. There is no sense of individuality except maybe for a few coats of a different color shutter paint or maybe a rather creative landscaping job in the front yard. But in general there very few homes that are strikingly unlike the others were I am from.