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/^t/As I said people enjoy all the entertainment that is offered to them by town 'facilities'. It is not far away to go to the theatre or the cinema; everything is at hand. Public transport is convenient, although many people usually own cars, because it is usually richer middle class that lives in the suburbs. Prices here are not so high as in the city, for example, because competition is smaller. People are more friendly, because everybody knows one another. In towns crime has bigger ratio, and people are very indifferent to one another, if not hostile sometimes. It is clean and neat, because everybody takes care of his possession, and it is more common to hear a friendly greeting from your neighbour. In the suburbs people seem to be happier that is why, on the whole, they are more peaceful and friendly. They are happier because they feel that they belong to a certain group, and thus they feel safer. They are comparatively rich, and they do not have to worry about everyday fight that takes place in the streets of great cities. Provincial life causes relative stabilization, which is the thing that people need very much. Having their primordial needs fulfilled, people in the suburbs can think about taking care of their intellectual life (very often children from provincial environments cause less trouble in upbringing and in their education). It is evident that this is the environment that brings up people from the province; even grown up individuals are somehow affected by mentality of such a homogenous group. In fact, suburbs create a certain kind of caste, which equally rewards and judges its members. I do not mean lynches or anything like this, but it is important for such a member of the group how he or she is perceived by his neighbours.