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
But they failed to integrate into the community - in large part because they couldn't find it.
The suburbs have some way of sucking the city out of you.
Once settled, Ms. Hillen, a stay-at-home mother, embarked on a fruitless hunt for companionship. "Out there, you have to work at being with people," she said. "In a year, I got one play date for my kid. We joined the Newcomers Club, and the day we put our house on the market, they finally called. You'd go to the library for a reading and there would be no one there." She added, "You're a lonely, desperate housewife with nothing to do.
Even the playgrounds were desolate. "And on the rare occasions there was somebody there and you struck up a conversation," she said, "they would literally move away. And they didn't encourage the kids to play together. We were so shocked
His miasma has evaporated since his return to the city last month. "I feel like I'm walking on water," he said. "It's just a whole level of stress eliminated from my life. I go out a lot more, it's allowed me a lot more time to spend with my daughter, it's less stressful at work. It's phenomenal."
You go to these little towns and they are very charming and sweet and have all these cute little shops," said Brian Lover, who put his West Orange, N.J., house back on the market just three months after moving there. "But I think when you live in these areas full time, those neighborhood shops aren't so cute. And those neighborhood restaurants that look so great, you know how bad they really are."
"When we come home and walk from the train to our apartment, there's no one on the street between 7 and 10 p.m.," she said. "It's just that feeling of being alone. You walk the dog and there's no one there."
There was the commute, for one thing. "You kind of trick yourself into thinking the commute is going to be easier than it is," said Mr. McCaul, who only occasionally caught the express train for a 40-minute door-to-door commute. "I spent many depressing nights at the Hoboken station," he added, waiting more than half an hour for a connection.
"If you go out for a drink with friends, you're always watching the clock," he said. Adding insult to tedium, Mr. McCaul suffered through the suburban version of the Freshman 15, putting 10 to 15 pounds on his normally thin frame, which he attributed to his mostly nonpedestrian lifestyle.
как говорится, ППКС
. Были, конечно элитные новостройки, там может быть было лучше, но в стандартных - одни коробки многоэтажные. 
Кроме того я лучше 15 мин проеду, чем лицезреть магазины каждый божий день под своим боком.
Спать можно спокойно, по утрам птички поют, а не сирены. Воздух чище. Трафик меньше. Если захочется музеев и концертов, то меньше чем через час можно разгуливать в "столице мира". Назад не хочу ни под каким видом!