38 - Sex & Suburbia

As people's waistlines have grown over the last 40-50 years so has the size of the houses. They went from this, to this and then finally into this. Now there are monster homes everywhere valued over a million dollars. And many property virgins that bought over the last few years. I believe James Howard Kunstler when he says that "Suburbia is the greatest mis-allocation of resources of history of the world, America took all of it's post world war 2 wealth and invested it in a living arrangement that has no future." Suburbia exploded in it's mass produced cookie cutter fashion after the second world war but the real question is why? Did all the soldiers returning from the war want a house with a two car garage and plenty of room for kids. America had so much wealth after the second world war. It was the only place in the world that still had it's factories running and the mass production of houses replaced the building of munitions after the second world war. With all that money wives pulsing through the North American economy wives didn't want to live in scumming inner cities anymore. The inner cities were dirty, smelly and crowded. Women wanted the suburbs so they could have a place for their children. Before the birth control pill in the early 1960s a woman knew that if she got pregnant it was game over so the idea in the 1950s was that a woman needed to get a proper nest as fast as possible with extra bedrooms and plenty of room and storage for a baby. Men wanted sex without condoms and there was no pill or abortion until 1973. Promiscuity was impossible on the scale of today because the risk of pregnancy was much higher

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