My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male

[Regina]

This is actually an interesting point, but I'd like if you could explain better why it is more interesting.

Additionally, I don't want anyone else to be born white, I want everyone to have give or take equal opportunities of social success and acceptance. In fact, some physical diversity makes the world interesting.

When you envision a white suburban neighborhood is there anything interesting going on? Maybe privately, but there is no music playing in the streets, there aren't people playing sports openly, everything is just so sanitized. Black and hispanic (and white rural) neighborhoods are so much more lively. People look down on these people as 'under-privileged' but I would imagine that if given a choice, they'd much rather live the way that they do than move into an expensive upper middle class house in the suburbs. Unfortunately that's what social success means to so many people. Being comfortable. Living in a nice neighborhood. I've lived in the suburbs, lived in Mexico, lived in rural Kentucky, lived in the Ghetto and by far the suburbs was the worst. There is just no culture. When people think Americans have no culture it's because the American dream, picket fence and all, is a culturaless boring one that involves working all the time and not actually enjoying your life. So maybe not everyone wants to be 'privileged.'

I completely agree, having experienced both.

I grew up in the suburban life (although it was more working class than middle class definitely, we were never comfortably wealthy) and it was boring. You especially notice it when you become an adult, and you realise you are so cut off from the excitement of the city, with public transport services few and far between and unreliable (which sucks if, like me, you don't drive).

It is cultureless. Nobody talks to anyone else, save for the old ladies who gossip about the neighbours. Very little to do, very little and/or poor retail and leisure services.

I'm now living in a more "deprived" inner-city neighbourhood at university with some friends. I love it. It's so much closer to everything, it's more exciting, more stuff happens and I love the diversity. Once I officially move out of my parents' home I can't see myself moving back to the suburbs unless I have a family.