Originally Posted by
Machka
That may be how the suburbs in your particular area are set up. It's not how all suburbs are set up. The suburbs I'm familiar with are quite different from that.
Terminology aside, I like it wherever things are located close enough for biking, if not walking, and they have good public transit connecting various parts of the area together. I haven't found any "suburb" that meets those requirements around Seattle, but like I said earlier, suburbs around Tokyo are a lot more like that.