Interesting quote on suburbs

My God,the suburbs!They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory,and we thought of them as a loss of privacy,a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the placename appeared in The New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a sawgun.-John Cheever,ESQUIRE,July 1960.