Like its culinary counterpart, the McMansion provides excellent value for its price. American homebuilders are perhaps the best in the world when it comes to providing buyers with the private realm. The problem is that most suburban residents, the minute they leave this refuge, are confronted by a tawdry and stressful environment. Americans may have the finest private realm in the developed world, but our public realm is brutal.
— Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation