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that's what I hate most about the suburbs. there isn't much if anything interesting to do. I hate the endless flatness and cookie cutter monotony of everything. if you've seen one taco bell you've seen them all...if you've seen one suburb you've seen them all.
it doesn't help that everything is so spread out, flat and horizontal. the houses and buildings are all wider than they are tall for the most part, like a person who is laying down and appears to be dead. to me that's what the suburbs are like - a graveyard - and the buildings have as much visual appeal as a cardboard box.
nothing to do and nothing to look at, the suburbs represent the mcdonaldization of urban planning.
They're designed to be that way. One person's "dull" is another person's "undisturbed peace and quiet." One person's lack of variety is another person's lack of potential conflict. One person's monotonous row of chain stores is another person's predictable island of economic stability and good value. One person's vacant suburban street is another person's trouble-free commute.
In the suburbs, less is more. A crowded suburb is a suburb on its way downhill; it's the next suburb that always has the most appeal, because it has less than a fully built out suburb.
Well you know what they say about opinions and portals for waste to pass through, right? Every body has one...
Some suburbs are hilly. Some have locally owned taquerias and food trucks. Some have college campuses and comedy clubs and brew pubs. Some are well served by transit, ringed with bike lanes and very compact / walkable. Some have an interesting mix of unique architectural homes, buildings designed to have modest footprints, and soaring characteristics. Vibrant, like a person climbing ever higher, not some lump that pokes their digits into their own orifices...
You should get out more. Maybe open your mind. Relax your tight sphincter...
They're designed to be that way. One person's "dull" is another person's "undisturbed peace and quiet." One person's lack of variety is another person's lack of potential conflict. One person's monotonous row of chain stores is another person's predictable island of economic stability and good value. One person's vacant suburban street is another person's trouble-free commute.
In the suburbs, less is more. A crowded suburb is a suburb on its way downhill; it's the next suburb that always has the most appeal, because it has less than a fully built out suburb.
I think suburbs are made to move as many cars around as fast and efficiently as possible, and not much else. they are completely utilitarian. all function and little or no form. notice how there seems to be at least half a dozen fast food chain restaurants with drive-thrus on every block, as if they want all the worker drones to eat as fast as they can so they can get back to work ASAP.
I think suburbs are made to move as many cars around as fast and efficiently as possible, and not much else. they are completely utilitarian. all function and little or no form. notice how there seems to be at least half a dozen fast food chain restaurants with drive-thrus on every block, as if they want all the worker drones to eat as fast as they can so they can get back to work ASAP.
You really don't get out much, do you?
It be like saying the internet exists solely for creepy men that live in their mom's basement to share their pictures of pornography as efficiently as possible...
In the city it is hard to find a ramp for launching your boat. I have never seen a hiker/biker trail in any big city, but a number of them in outlying areas.
With no fast food joints, where do you go for a greaseburger and diesel fries?
Some have locally owned taquerias and food trucks.
a food truck? lmao. what's faster than a fast food restaurant? a food truck! brings the food right to your workplace so you can eat your lunch within 10 minutes instead of 20.
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Originally Posted by chet everett
Some suburbs are hilly...Some have college campuses and comedy clubs and brew pubs. Some are well served by transit, ringed with bike lanes and very compact / walkable. Some have an interesting mix of unique architectural homes, buildings designed to have modest footprints, and soaring characteristics. Vibrant, like a person climbing ever higher, not some lump that pokes their digits into their own orifices...
that's not saying much.
lake forest for example is a very hilly upscale suburb in orange county caifornia, nice and woodsy just like its name says but imo ruined by the streets that are all very wide with high 50 mph speed limit yet most people are driving 5 to 10 mph above that. I wouldn't call it walkable though. but the streets are lined with tall densely packed trees and are more pleasant to look at then your typical suburban street. lake forest is a relatively nice looking suburb but still a very typical suburb with all the trappings, strip malls and chain stores, huge parking lots of any other suburb and not much to do except drive around at freeway speeds up and down the hills.
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Originally Posted by chet everett
It be like saying the internet exists solely for creepy men that live in their mom's basement to share their pictures of pornography as efficiently as possible...
a food truck? lmao. what's faster than a fast food restaurant? a food truck! brings the food right to your workplace so you can eat your lunch within 10 minutes instead of 20.
If you don't know the food truck culture, you are missing out. You're sounding pretty ignorant by now.
If you don't know the food truck culture, you are missing out.
food trucks can be fun and cool in an urban setting when they are selling food on the street with lots of people walking by and trying out the food. but in a suburban setting they tend to have a much more utilitarian purpose....to quickly feed factory workers who may not have a car or are in an industrial area away from the restaurants.
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