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Moroder's avatar

I think suburbs get hate because Americans don't socialize with each other as much as they used to. Suburbs are great when there's a real community, otherwise it's just silence with occasional interruptions from neighbor squabbles. I think this is part of a larger trend in America where people are becoming more neurotic and anti-social, especially after the pandemic. Regardless, living in a suburb is still much better than the alternative of living in city anarchy.

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ravenr_'s avatar

I find that my situation mirrors yours quite well and I have already come to many of the conclusions that you present here. Great read!

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Lowan's avatar

I love the “boringness” and “mediocrity” of upper-middle class suburbia. It’s very peaceful and simple. Just drink your white monster, ride your lawn mower, and wave a hello to your neighbor who’s probably doing the same thing.

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Dumb Pollock's avatar

City life used to be much nicer before diversity. Same with small towns and suburban. The key is civil involvement with many fraternities and civil groups that allows for socialization and improvement of one’s status. Without it, loneness will be a part of any community regardless of its type.

For one of artist background, some access to a city is a must if you want to engage with other artists and to expose yourself to really wide range of materials. One very famous art supply store was Pearl Paint (sadly out of business after the artists were priced out housing by the international rich and corporations). It have 8 floors of unbelievable stuff. The oil paint floor alone have over 1,000 pigment colors for mixing with linseed oil in a medical bowl. Then there was a NY Art Center that was stocked with over hundreds of specialized paper such as Japanese rice paper that was translucent with loose strands embedded inside the fiber. Now, they are all out of business, even stationary stores struggle to survive the rising price as every rich folk searched for security in real estate.

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user12497's avatar

After i initially moved from suburb to a more rural area i knee-jerked into hating the suburbs since they didnt provide as easy access to all the neat nature that my rural college is surrounded by. However after being not as naive i realize raising children in the place i grew up would be much better than here, all the kids here do is squander the oppurtunities in this area and sit in the walmart parking lot and smoke. Sad!

Maybe thats just due to poor parenting, i am sure there are plenty of better families in the area. However i am drawn to cool forests and mountains rather than cheap cookie cutter homes built by latinx.

I guess my recourse is to find a small suburban area, or one that is in the mountains or whatnot.

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FartPat's avatar

To be fair, when people say suburban life is boring, they're right. A cool life is doing something famous or entertaining, like being a star or epic warrior. Most 'burbans have the same forgettable life; work 9-5 blue/white collar job, go home to heckin wife and 1-3 kids, do this for 50 years and DIE. It's quite unfulfilling and lame, you should be an epic warlord movie star, not some dime-a-dozen peasant. Many such cases, sad!

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

Being a hollywood star sounds like it would suck. If it's so great, why are they all doing drugs? I would like being a star athlete though

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

This may be true, but it's true for everywhere in modernity

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FartPat's avatar

don't niggers still have gangs & clans

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

Also, they're hardly "clans". They're just "crews"...

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

Yes, but they are black.

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anskipol's avatar

I love my ruralchuds, and I love my suburbros! Can we just rejoice together and collectively stick our nose up at the miscegenatious urbanites? :^)

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Davis's avatar

I’ve hated college cuz I’ve associated it with living in the city. I went from a nice cozy Washington suburb minutes from the water and 45 minutes from the mountains to an awful ugly South Carolinian city that feels inescapable. Egh. The next door neighbors smoke weed and every groid with a car MUST blast bass-boosted music, and refuse to use a turn signal. It seems third-world to me, who foolishly immigrated from a cul-de-sac.

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Mongerist's avatar

Considering who shits on suburban life I think they are genetically incapable of seeing the positives. Bugmen for example, have had to evolve in sardine can conditions and cannot fathom anything outside of cramming into smelly rickshaws and talking loudly to eachother.

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Viddao's avatar

People say that Suburbs are lonely and atomized, but urban areas a probably just as bad. You live in an apartment by yourself, and you don't know your neighbors. Most of the socialization is either for criminal activity or sexual immorality.

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- Ffffffghggghjk's avatar

Accurate. They hate us cause they ain't us

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