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My question is: how is it to grow up in these hellholes? How's the life there? Does it resemble the medieval European village community where everyone spies on their neighbours just to catch some "suspivious activity"?
You're right. American suburbs kill the quality of life in the US. It takes forever to go anywhere(shopping, going out, commute) and kids or people without a car are prisoners in their own homes because there is nowhere to go unless you have someone to drive you. Wait and see what will happen in a few decades when we run out of affordable fuel for cars, people in the suburbs will go nuts. There is no point in moving back to the cities because those are generally ghetto and there is no public transportation.
There is no use in arguing with Americans over this because they simply don't know any better. Just let them live in their bubble.
If you have a family, and family responsibilities, you'd usually prefer a suburban home to some overpriced microapartment in a major city. Once you've seen a city rat the size of a small cat chew a hole clean through 5 inches concrete and steel mesh into your $3000 pcm city center pad, you start to appreciate some of the finer things in life.
Sorry, but what makes them hellholes? They are just closely packed together homes. Would you prefer a tenement? I would love to live in a home like this!
Well hell yes! Suburban middle-class narrowminded church-going ignorant paranoid conservative Republican communities. I'll rather jump into the ocean than becoming a sardine in a can where most of the women are work-evading "housemakers" and the men drive a brand new car every year just to show status.
I'm gonna have to agree with the OP here. I would hate to live in a place that dense but far away from the city. I'd prefer to be in the city or have a lot more space.
Well hell yes! Suburban middle-class narrowminded church-going ignorant paranoid conservative Republican communities. I'll rather jump into the ocean than becoming a sardine in a can where most of the women are work-evading "housmakers" and the men drive a brand new car every year just to show status.
My personal depiction of hell.
You are calling people narrow-minded and you are easily the most narrow-minded person here. You just dropped so many ridiculous stereotypes. Unbelievable. I've seen some dumb close-minded things on this forum but you just took the cake.
You are calling people narrow-minded and you are easily the most narrow-minded person here. You just dropped so many ridiculous stereotypes. Unbelievable. I've seen some dumb close-minded things on this forum but you just took the cake.
It's evident by now this thread was intended as some kind of limp-wristed political statement.
You have to understand though a lot of us in western Europe are bewildered a lot of the time by American conservatives. Like they are trying to dismantle their own country.
But hey I am a liberal I guess - and I'd move into one of them houses!
It looks very boring, certainly, and I wouldn't want to live there. But each to their own. If the were more local shops and amenities it wouldn't be so bad, and I don't mean big Costco's or Wal-Marts, but little local roads with shops, a few restaurants, maybe a bar. Just something to do, that doesn't involve driving.
Personally I'd rather live in the Finnish commie blocks. I just dislike suburbia, and I don't desire a huge house with a huge garden. Too much maintenance anyway.
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