Yes and no. They only ever need to go to the executive parts of cities. Many of the people I know in the burbs work from home. I don't like being there, all those neatly lined up houses just bug me. I guess what I'm trying to say is that most of the people I've known who grew up in the burbs were very, very sheltered. I don't mean to generalize, but this is just what I've experienced. Most suburban areas have a mega (i.e., more, higher quality products) version of a supermarket, and a assortment of food chains just around the corner. Usually Apple Bees, Red Robin, T.G.I. Fridays etc. The only time they really need to leave is for work.

I'm painting with broad brushes and speaking for people here, I apologize. I just have had some...less than pleasant experiences with suburbanites. To explain my aversion: about 70% of the middle class people in the South aren't Southerners, but Yanks that have moved down into the suburbs because of business stuff. It inspires resentment among the working class, they have better schools (yes, most suburban areas have their own schools), better tasting water, free lawn care, big houses. Many of the families down here work themselves to the bone just to scraqe by. I'm not saying that the working class deserves hand outs or that the middle class and upper middle class don't deserve their wealth. Unless they were born into it, they earned every penny too their name. It just inspires a lot of hot air, seeing them live better lives than the locals. Then they feel like they can tell us how to live, what is wrong and what is right, that is what really gets people. Many of them I've met seem to think of the locals as ill mannered barbarians who sacrifice goats on the altar to bring the magic cloud tears down upon our plant babies.

okay, in Las Vegas what should i do, i really wanna go

Isn't there a large number of car accidents in Australia caused by those spiders falling out of rear view mirrors and glove boxes and stuff?

I realise that sentence is awkward as hell by the way. I'm wining and dining. Minus the dining. So I ain't gonna change it tonight.

Why does chocolate have to have peanut butter in it?

Don't know where you got that idea...Reese's cups are really good, but Hershey and others make all kinds of chocolate with no peanut butter.

Don't know where you got that idea...Reese's cups are really good, but Hershey and others make all kinds of chocolate with no peanut butter.

I look in my local target and I see about twenty differnt types of peanut butter choclate!

I tasted Hershey's for the first time recently and was somewhat surprised to find that it's flavoured with vomit.

Candy filled shooting range? Damn, why didn't I think of that.

Yeah, I get it. I used to live in a suburb's 'poor' section. Considering I've lived in roach motels, a trailer, and sub-par homes. Living in that house felt like a mansion from the places I'd lived. One of the worst parts of a Suburbia is the arrogance. There are usually 3 types of suburbia people. The kind who have that 'Rags to riches' story, and is totally cool to know, the guy who had a good upbringing from birth but is fully concious of the world outside the Suburbia Bubble, then the cliche snob who think they're entitled to the best there is in the world even if they simply married or were born into their wealth. I don't believe the people who work for their money dont deserve it, they've fought for their dollar, it's their right to live in privelege, but the snobby types usually never worked among the 'common' folk, or at all.

Australians how do you feel about "New south Wales" as a person from south Wales. I [censored] hate it.

"Sydney funne-web spider"

Meaning it only lives in and around Sydney . If you steer clear of New South Wales, your chances of coming across one are extremely limited outside of zoos.

Isn't there a large number of car accidents in Australia caused by those spiders falling out of rear view mirrors and glove boxes and stuff?

I've met rich snobs, poor snobs, middle class snobs, intellectual snobs, stupid snobs. In my brain a snob is just a snob. One more reason why I think we have to judge folks on an individual basis rather then clump them all together and label them as a group.

I tasted Hershey's for the first time recently and was somewhat surprised to find that it's flavoured with vomit.

Salient point. I suppose in general a snob isn't an economic class so much as a personality class. Even among 'poor' you find snobs, and why? Because they take PRIDE in being these poor 'survivalists'. So I suppose people will find any reason to be self superior, be it religious, political, economic, etc.

I came away with much the same impression

Don't know where you got that idea...Reese's cups are really good, but Hershey and others make all kinds of chocolate with no peanut butter.

Yep. We're all bozos on this bus.

I will point out however that true survivalists know they must help one another out no matter how rich, poor, smart, stupid, egocentric or whatever they are because if you don't you won't survive long. It does bring folks together in a way little else does. However that isn't really a choice.

I remember The Highlands being...ethereal, almost.

I concur. What's the deal with American chocolate? It all tastes like sick.

To the Dutch: you really love mayonnaise, don't you?

I concur. What's the deal with American chocolate? It all tastes like sick.

Hmmm, I think I used the wrong words....Survivalist isnt right. But it's like uhhh, those people who are dirt poor, and are bull stubborn in their simplicity? Like those people who criticise the rich soley because they don't rely on the simpler more basic things someone poorer might rely on.

Americans: why do you have bad versions of good stuff, i.e. cheese, chocolate, wine?