I'm starting to wonder if the suburbs aren't genuinely an alternative universe.

Now that I have left them for a number of years, when I talk to my family about things like this I'm pretty firmly convinced they are their own planets. This is often reinforced when suburbanites move into their first apartments in the city and I happen to live below them.

The rules of engagement out there are completely different. What makes it worse it seems is the flat out refusal by some to acknowledge that they do have different rules and ways of looking at things.