As someone who used to sell real estate, I always laugh when the lamestream media and liberals proclaim the suburbs and/or exurbs dead. They been doing it for 80 years now (ever since large amounts of people started to escape the city to them).
Ironically, they were ok with the suburbs in the early days when they were largely the playground of the wealthy. When commuter trains started to open them up to the middle class and when the car made them practical they began to hate them.
The worst this recession did, only resulted in some vacant homes and somewhat lower prices in most exurbs, and both of those things are correcting themselves. Compare that with many city neighborhoods that went downhill 60 years ago, and are never going to recover because of their politics.
When the 2010 census came out, I was the one of the few predicting that the city of Chicago population would be down by a large number. I was thinking about 150,000. Most of the liberals I know where predicting a population GAIN. Some were predicting a 80,000 (Chicago managed to have a small gain in 2000, the first in 50 years). But as we know the population was down by 250,000. The only gains in the Chicago area were in, you guessed it, the exurban areas. Of course some of those exurbs are now in Indiana and Wisconsin not Illinois.
