Agreed 100%. Despite having lived in the city for the past couple years, I still drive home pretty much every chance I get. The city has jobs, but it's rife with crime, grime, and constant noise. You can't go to the good restaurants since you might be mugged, and the closest you'll get to nature is rubbing up against one of the decorative shrubs that divide main street. The park is there, but the dirt lining every path/trail is studded with inlaid shards of broken glass. Granted, this might be one of the worst cities in the country (somewhere around seventh or eighth, in terms of crime), but I'd much rather live in a vibrant middle-class suburb; my hometown was probably the best example of this, since it straddles the area between another of the worst cities in the country and an ultra-posh Ivy League university town. So long as it's not in the middle of bumblefuck-nowhere or populated primarily with multi-million dollar mansions, I'd take the town over the city any day.
Virtual Reality isn't a fad this time around.
