With my job I travel quite a bit and get to see a lot of soulless upper-class suburban areas.🏡 The suburban areas are typically have supposedly nice chemically treated lawns, hardwood floors and enormous high ceilings made out of Chinese drywall and with the finest vinyl decorations you can find at local big box stores. They usually have the best selection of cookie cutter shrubbery and large open kitchen with marble countertops and massive color televisions and smart devices in every room. Everything is made out of cheap nasty industrial materials from China but is celebrated as being modern and stylish.🚽

Organic food fills the pantry and don’t worry, they even have an enormous recycling bin to compliment their even larger trash can. 🎠Advanced electronic controls keep the house a perfect 72 degrees even on the coldest winter day or the warmest summer evening. Because they want to make a green statement they may have grid connected solar panels on their roof, an plug in hybrid in their driveway and a plastic compost bin out bin back.🚗 And a frilly dog inside. That’s the suburbanites life.

They work their high stress job in the big office tower downtown,🏢 drive their plug in hybrid back and forth to work every day through the grid lock of rush hour.🚙 They always send in their yearly check to the Sierra Club and get the latest magazines from the suburbanite house wife magazine. Despite living in tranquil suburbanites neighborhood they live in fear that a criminal, 👹somebody of a dark skin color will break their picture window to steal their color television and rape their wife.

It’s a tacky, awful and expensive life if you ask me. It’s an incredibly consumptive life as they burn through millions of watts to keep the lights burning on the temperature perfect.:idea: They are left with big tax bills and utility utility costs every month. 💰Their lives are completely isolated from the real world, insulated by remote industrial forces outside of their bubble.

I have nothing but disdain for the suburbanites way of living, especially how it emphasizes consumption and debt over all things in life. 💳Rather than saving and investing, it encourages borrowing and television watching promoting even more extravagant suburbanite living.💵

I do enough camping and spending time in the wilderness and I know how to pay my future first and save and invest in a variety of products to allow my money to grow avoid the trap of suburbia.💸 I know that eventually I will be able have a more primitive and responsible life on my land if I plan and continue to invest both in the markets and myself through expanding my knowledge. 📚I don’t have to have a plastic suburbanite life if I don’t want it. If you don’t have those expensive cable and utility bills, don’t own a television or have internet at home you can afford more. 💻If you a primitive water supply, and outhouse and a simple instant on hot water supply for showers you can afford a lot more land and other toys that can bring you closer to the natural world then isolate you further in a plastic world🔌 made up of Chinese drywall, marble countertops, big screen color televisions.

It’s actually remarkable how expensive the modern suburbanite life☎ is based on my estimates, although I guess I wouldn’t really know because despite living in the suburbs I choose not to participate in it. 📲I like my small run down two floor apartments without air conditioning and only minimal heat in the winter. I like taking the bus to work every day and walking around town to the park and library. 📗I like taking my own trash to the transfer station and doing whatever I can to conserve energy at home. And I do enjoy my many nights in the wilderness, camping alone out of eye shot and ear shot of anyone else. 🐄🐂But I do miss the small town living.

Regardless my weekend adventures in the wilderness keep happy as I work for a better tomorrow.