“...the exurbanites of S. C. Spectorsky, whose daily commutation may eat up as much as three to four hours. SUch a man gets up earlier than the urbanite or than the closer-in suburbanite; he gulps his breakfast; he fights for a parking place near the railroad station; he rides the dirty train to the city, and still has a subway or a taxi or a bus ride to his place of employment. In the evening the process is reversed, and the nerves are frazzled and the muscles work to an ache by the time he returns home...Such mental cruelty is the more remarkable in that it is self-imposed...” (48)

(Donaldson, Scott. The Suburban Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Print.)