The Return fromIraq and the Burbs

One of my best friends is just back from iraq. Nothng real to report there. Things are bad, we need ot win hearts and minds secure the country. Stuff we all know. Stuff we dont know...no porn in country, most people stationed in country live in shipping containers, They have everything to eat. Work all day and nothing more..wait this sounds like life on the Hill....

So we had a welcome home at a bar in the subrubs. Let me say this...our waiter wanted to leave at like 1100PM. Being a product of the suburbs one would think that i would be comfortable there but i am not. I fear the burbs mainly because when people have too much free time they do stupid hateful things...

So we met at an Irish bar in the burbs, there was Guiness but no irish singer fresh in from Kilcarney, no unicorn song, no fun irish bar songs, no brown eyed girl...the fish and chips were weak and not enough whiskey...plus there was no smoke. I know smoking is bad but the bar felt to clean too nice too suburban...it was plain creepy. It was all laid out nicely and clean and orderly. No one was accosted and it was just too nice......

Is moving out to the burbs my fate...is a sur la table store, and fake tapas bar my future???? Will i live in a condo canyon of bed bath and beyyonds??? Will Independent Groundswell exist alongside Suburban Groundswell???

I dont want to leave the city but if i am going to buy i can only afford the burbs...