Here's a book for you to all read. It's very objective and written by a Mac Prof. Richard Harris
http://books.google.ca/books?id=GPYf...with-thumbnail
Interview with Harris
http://www.raisethehammer.org/index.asp?id=169
I like his term "corporate suburb". In essence a buyer of a suburban house is buying a version of what a corporation thinks you want. A mini-Disney if you will. They are much less organic -- less variety, more homogenous because they are planned to suit the needs of a certain buyer. Thus they attract they same types of people/consumers.