My first reaction was... get a life!
Desolate, lonely, boring ... we need that city action
But then when I read that you couldn't get FOOD DELIVERY
Oh the horror ...
What about "Shopping" ... or "Cooking"
The Suburbs: For Some, It's a Disaster, and They Race Back to the City as Fast as They Can - New York Times:
"After nine months, she persuaded her husband - who was enjoying his truncated commute to his financial services job in Greenwich, Conn. - to sell the house. 'Summer had come and gone and I was looking at another winter of being completely alone,' she said, citing frequent power failures as another concern, along with the so-so restaurants and lack of food delivery. 'He was very supportive, the poor man.'"
"It's like death out there," said Mr. Torossian, a fast-talking Bronx native who resisted the comparatively tempered pace, like food delivery that stops at 9 p.m. and a newspaper delivered at 7:30 a.m....
"I can't wait 15 minutes in a bagel store to get two bagels," he said. "I can't have people looking at me like I'm crazy when I walk in and put a quarter on the table to get my paper and walk out. I go home and there's, like, people doing their lawn every five minutes. They seem like normal people but they spend, like, hours working on their lawn."
or how about this ... Lyme Disease!
"We had this beautifully landscaped acre-and-a-half of land for the kids to play in, but we were terrified of Lyme disease," Ms. Sweeney said. "We lived in a cul-de-sac and it was lovely but if we biked off the cul-de-sac, we were on these beautiful country roads that were curved so that bike riding on them wasn't so safe. We realized we were far safer going to Central Park, really playing with the kids and having our picnic, especially in the summertime."
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After reading through this, it looks an awful lot like a prior story on the horrors of living outside the city.
Will have to dig, but suspect it's a Times rehash
The Curmudgon in the Wilderness ...
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