In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion of community changed drastically. You went from all being very close together to all being spaced apart and slightly suspicious of one another.
Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.
Every family in America has the right to live anywhere they can afford.
The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.
I've lived through a lot of different neighborhoods.
It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.
I grew up in the suburbs, sometimes country-like suburbs because we moved around, but mostly suburbs.
I come from a small county outside of Washington DC called PG County, and me, my mom, my brother, we moved so many different places growing up. And it felt like a box. It felt like there was no getting out.
I'm always moving apartments or moving houses or moving cities.
My mother liked to buy houses, fix them up, and turn them over. We'd live somewhere for a few months and then move to another house, sometimes just two blocks away.
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
