As a midwestern suburbanite, these threads remind me that urban dwellers spend a lot of time thinking about me and the way I live, while I never think about them at all.
To be fair, a good portion of these urban dwellers are in one of like three cities in the US, and are vastly outnumbered by suburbanites. Or they're in Europe, which makes them pretty much irrelevant to US politics.
I guess I don't blame them for thinking about it a lot, since in a particular niche circumstance it is probably disruptive and worth worrying about. But for those of us living in suburban cities, it's really not something on the radar.
The only urban dwellers who are spending time thinking about the midwestern suburbs are the ones who grew up in the midwestern suburbs and transplanted themselves to somewhere urban and saw a different way of life.
This is probably dangerous.