"Slowly Calling the Burbs Home"

In the article "Slowly Calling the Burbs Home," Patricia Lahrmer discusses the simple life of living in the suburbs. She moved from Europe, to the city and then to the suburbs, because it felt like her small town in Ohio. She described the suburbs as a place where nothing happened, but everything about it comforted her. In one paragraph she talks about dog that she sees collapse and everyone swarm to help it. She then tells her friends the story, but all they did was chuckle and she was then annoyed with herself for telling it in the first place. Lahrmer also describes a time when she saw a building being demolished and she imagined the family coming back and seeing it gone, because it was their home for so many years. She begins to enjoy the suburbs and its uneventful ways; realizing that houses take shape there and human beings live their lives. From reading this article I am now thinking differently about the suburbs and its perfection, because it can be a very comforting place.

Bill Owens definitely captures life in the suburbs. He shows you how perfect it can be on the inside and out. I think Lahrmer and Owens definitely have similar views about the suburbs, because Lahrmer is happy with the comforting yet uneventful ways of them and Owens portrays that through his photographs. The houses are all aligned, there are a lot of family vacations, and sometimes they do neighborhood events. I kind of feel like I live in suburbia, because I live in a neighborhood just like the one Lahrmer described and Owen showed, although big events do happen, it is comforting and where I have lived my entire life. Suburbs, although boring, are nice in the fact that they are comforting and everyone can feel safe.