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I read an article¹ on CNN.com today. It was about the growing trend of the innercity becoming the home of the young, professional types — the people who used to inhabit the suburbs. It struck out to me because I'm seeing the trend in myself.

I hate the suburbs. Everything here is centred around extravagance. It doesn't make sense to me to put everything far apart where it takes so much time to get where you need to me. Still, some people like having the big backyard and the garden. Myself, I think that I'm more of a city person. I'm one who wants to be able to walk where ever I need to go or at least use public transport. Call it environmentalism or cheapbastardism.² Regardless, I think that it's a good trend. I think that it's good that we realise that efficiency in our society should be something that we consider over luxury. Finally, we're getting it.

Also, while we're on the topic of efficiency, with this new software that I'm writing for my website, information that I used to be able to obtain with one one database query now takes 187 queries. I think that I need to rethink something here.

1. http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/16/suburb.city/index.html
2. Of course, with gasoline at four dollars for a gallon, cheapbastardism isn't that bad of a concept.