Moments from Suburbia

Monday, April 11, 2011

Today I am moving house. After so much waiting it seems quite unreal.

See you on the other side, internet connection permitting!

11 comments:

Steve said...: Good luck - hope it all goes smoothly!; 11 April 2011 at 08:03
sally in norfolk said...: hope all gos well... my turn next :-); 11 April 2011 at 09:05
Jennysmith said...: Best of luck, sweetie. A new start, eh?; 11 April 2011 at 11:34
Rob-bear said...: I hope it goes well for you, Sub. We move on Friday.
Such "moving experiences" for all of us. ;); 11 April 2011 at 16:15
Tim Atkinson said...: Hope all goes well!; 11 April 2011 at 17:48
nick said...: Best of luck. I look forward to all the moving-in anecdotes!; 11 April 2011 at 18:58
Rose said...: Good luck! I hope all goes smoothly and you are settled in soon.; 12 April 2011 at 13:23
Furtheron said...: hope all has gone well; 12 April 2011 at 21:01
Reasons said...: Know that feeling so well. Fear not, you will be so happy when it is all yours xx; 13 April 2011 at 06:18
Liz Hinds said...: Hope we get some photos soon!; 13 April 2011 at 13:13
this is my patch said...: Wishing you all much happiness in your new abode. x; 16 April 2011 at 18:54

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The word is derived from the Old French "subb urbe" and ultimately from the Latin "suburbium", formed from "sub", meaning "under", and "urbs", meaning "city", therefore suburbis would mean under the city. Important people tended to live on hills near centers of commercial and political activity, while the lower classes often lived in marginal areas. "Under" in later usage sometimes referred variously to lesser wealth, political power, population, or population density. The first recorded usage, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, comes from Wycliffe in 1380, where the form "subarbis" is used

Consigned to the wheelie bin at the end of the drive?

Half the population lives in suburbia but fewer like to admit it.
Car washing on a Sunday in front of a semi-detached mock Tudor home complete with twitching net curtains is the life it conveys, to repeated ridicule.
The image of a cultural wasteland between the vibrant, edgy inner city and the rural idyll was reinforced by 1970s comedies such as The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and The Good Life, and dramas like Abigail's Party.
But does this prejudice have any basis today or should it be consigned to the wheelie bin at the end of the drive?
By Tom Geoghegan BBC News Magazine

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