Maybe Cities Aren't A Beautiful Inconvenience

There be dragons, but in the city or the suburbs?

I’ve written before about a couple of different possible explanations of suburbanites’ negative view of cities (generalizing with that, obviously). One is this idea that there’s a sort of puritanical thing going on, where urban life seems fun and breezy, and Americans see it as a continuation of college, or of opting out of full maturity and adulthood. …