Suburbanites Rebel!
 | Get out and do something . . . anything! A newly released RAND Corporation study has shown that living in the suburbs can make you sick, which is bad news for a majority of Americans. While a number of reasons were cited for this, the main cause was that people tend to spend less time walking and more time sitting in their cars. You would think that country folks would be healthier, but even in cities that have both more congestion and pollution, city-dwellers are healthier because they live in an environment that encourages them to walk. The cure is bucking the system and rebelling. Go outside and walk anyway, even if it's not the way your neighborhood was designed. Suburban planners don't take into account that people might want to walk anywhere, so most tracts are not set up to encourage walking. But according to the study, the only way we're going to change this is by walking anyway. Developers follow trends, not the other way around. If we get outside and do stuff, then we'll force those in charge to react and develop ways to accommodate us. Plus, we'll get sick a lot less. |
