The suburbs are bad for your health. So says a new study highlighted in today’s Washington Post. Count me extremely skeptical. We “burbarians” choose suburban living, mainly for quality-of-life reasons, and our decisions are both informed and self-interested in ways that even the brainiest researchers can’t identify in their piles of statistics. But watch no-growth leftists latch on to this study and tell us once more that they know best.

About the Author
John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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