The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
The American dream is still to own your home.
I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.
I don't like all suburbs, just like I don't like all parts of cities.
We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.
We've always been suburb people, and we lived in the East Bay when I was in Oakland. This time around, we're staying in the city, and my kids are getting that city life experience, which is something you don't get too much of in Alabama.
I grew up in the suburbs.
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.