As a product of suburbia, I adore this. My Christmas novel is set in exactly the kind of liminal location you describe, where the local petrol station is now a Lidl, neighbouring streets are connected to each other by overgrown concrete footpaths and most of the pubs have been converted into flats with insufficient parking.
Excellent - there needs to be more things set in suburbs (rather than just using them as places to escape from) given that it’s where most people live (amazingly the stats on where people live are only collected for urban vs rural, not suburban, but the general assumption is its basically the majority)
Your last couple of paragraphs put me in mind of The Stepford Wives. I feel like there is so much potential for horror in a surburban setting. I wonder if it is due to a fundamental lack of identity. People basically live there because of its proximity to somewhere else.
As a product of suburbia, I adore this. My Christmas novel is set in exactly the kind of liminal location you describe, where the local petrol station is now a Lidl, neighbouring streets are connected to each other by overgrown concrete footpaths and most of the pubs have been converted into flats with insufficient parking.
Excellent - there needs to be more things set in suburbs (rather than just using them as places to escape from) given that it’s where most people live (amazingly the stats on where people live are only collected for urban vs rural, not suburban, but the general assumption is its basically the majority)
Your last couple of paragraphs put me in mind of The Stepford Wives. I feel like there is so much potential for horror in a surburban setting. I wonder if it is due to a fundamental lack of identity. People basically live there because of its proximity to somewhere else.