Letter to the editor
Dear Philip Preville,
I am writing to you about the article you wrote titled “The New Suburbanites”. Your article provides new insights and understandings to the situations many people are facing today regarding the city life. With the additional focus on the individual families and their personal
“adventures”, as I would like to call it, from city life to the suburbs, it really adds some subjectivity to the article. I am aware that many writers try to stay as objective as possible in their articles, but in this case I think it truly aids the readers to gain a better perspective of these families and their relationship with the city. I am sure that many people are aware of the many problems that the city faces, such as long commute times, overpriced housing, crowding, stress and so forth, but hearing the stories of these families really brings these issues to life and makes some realize that these conditions can actually contribute to the unlivability of big cities.
Nowadays you always hear people constantly complaining and bickering about these issues, but rarely do they ever seriously consider the idea of moving somewhere outside the city. And this may be because the things keeping them in the city such as jobs, friends, social lives, and family are not worth giving up, and this is evident in more than one of the families discussed in your article. These city “pull” factors, keeping people inside the city, might be one