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.
Every family in America has the right to live anywhere they can afford.
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've lived through a lot of different neighborhoods.
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.
Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.
I grew up in the suburbs, sometimes country-like suburbs because we moved around, but mostly suburbs.
I'm always moving apartments or moving houses or moving cities.
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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 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.
Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
