advantages/disadvantages to growing up in East Cobb

First of all, it's boring as hell. The local "scene" has always been pretty much limited to shitty teenage bands emulating whatever's dominating the radio at any point in time. I have to drive into Atlanta from Marietta to see good movies unless I want to wait until everybody else I know has already seen them. Everything that's ever been implied about suburbia in middlebrow not-quite-satirical movies that get way too much Sundance buzz is true (so congratulations, indie filmmakers! Your movies might not make any points that haven't already been made a million times over, but at least there's some basis in reality), and there's nothing exciting about living in someplace as "safe" or "clean" as this.

But it is, I guess, pretty safe and clean, to be honest. And the grade schools are better-funded than the ones in more urban environments--and yes, everything I know about inner-city public schools, I learned from season four of The Wire--even if they spend too much of that funding and time on football, a sport at which my alma mater of Sprayberry High will never excel, no matter how much attention is redirected to it from the gifted program.
I'd like to think that my unbearable laziness and cynicism are results of my suburban upbringing, but they're probably just inherent traits of mine. That sucks, I guess.