American Dream or Nightmare?

Here's a chilling (at least to me) account of living in the suburbs while Dad climbs the corporate ladder.

"What is the American dream?" said Karen Handel, chairwoman of the Fulton County Commission in Alpharetta. "It's to have a house of your own, the biggest house you can afford, on the biggest lot you can afford, with a great school for your kids, a nice park to spend Saturday afternoon with your kids in, and deep in amenities that get into the trade-offs with traffic."

She forgot to mention the trade-offs for living a rootless, soulless life.