8 Ways to Know if the Suburbs Are Killing Your Soul
Post a response8. You can’t afford curtains on your dream home, even with an interest-only mortgage.
7. You go off on your son’s baseball coach and then avoid eye contact with him the next week on picture day for the third-grade baseball team.
6. You don’t really covet your neighbor’s husband but only the figure of his size-6 wife.
5. At the recent third-grade parent-teacher’s conference, you demanded to see hard evidence why your bright son shouldn’t be reading books out of the purple-colored book bin, the one for the talented and gifted.
4. You’d like to drive into the city to provide your exceptionally brilliant kids an educational experience at the history museum, but you’re nervous about being car-jacked or being hit on by a homeless man.
3. With all the sporting activities of your 2.5 kids and golden retriever, your next free Saturday morning is in 2012.
2. Your monthly Starbucks expense is almost as much as your monthly SUV payment.
1. You drive by the new gated subdivision near where you live and think, “How the heck can they afford that? Who died?”
March 30th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
Thank God for you! I am dying out here in the burbs – tired of the whining – just yesterday I heard a friend who was on an all expense paid trip to cancun WHINING that those people – the passengers in first class- shouldn’t be allowed to sit up there with all that room. It just wasn’t fair that she should have to suffer in the business class section.
Huh? What do I do? It is taking me real discipline to walk the narrow way every day of my life – beacuse some days I want to get back out ther and play that game. You know why? Because I was good at it. And for some reason, God found me dying here and brought me a whole new life. Truly, I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world – but I sure am tempted. Where are the people to help me stay grounded? Please raise your hand – I am looking out my window, and sometimes afriad to come out.
Sincerely, Jules
March 31st, 2006 at 5:22 pm
J, in our ‘burb, there are levels of spring break vacations:
1) none – a spring what?
2) to a cheap Wisconsin Dells waterpark
3) to an expensive Wisconsin Dells waterpark
4) to Colorado for spring skiing, and
5) to Cancun.