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Old 04-18-2013, 09:34 PM
 
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Here's a beautiful suburban neighborhood in the Phoenix area. LOL is this happiness to you ppl?
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Old 04-18-2013, 11:17 PM
 
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I don't see any humans out in public in those photos. Sad
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Old 04-19-2013, 01:23 AM
 
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Here's a beautiful suburban neighborhood in the Phoenix area. LOL is this happiness to you ppl?
It seems like many newer suburbs are built that way--we have them here in SoCal too... like Santa Clarita, Rancho Cucamonga, Chino Hills, etc--mainly suburbs of the '80s to now.

Postwar SoCal suburban developments of the '50s and '60s tend to have small lots with small houses because their jobs were to be starter homes for the returning soldiers. Nothing fancy--just simple homes for soldiers to start their families.

But nowadays buyers demand things like bigger lots, bigger houses, and cul-de-sacs in their communities, and we end up with these over-planned tract homes.


A piece of Rancho Cucamonga:

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Old 04-19-2013, 01:34 AM
 
Location: Go West young man...
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I don't see any humans out in public in those photos. Sad
Because nobody walks in LA (you can't see them because they're all in cars) and its too hot in Phoenix to be out.
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Old 04-19-2013, 08:51 AM
 
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I like looking at all that burbs from an airplane. So neat and perfect looking.... then on the ground u see all the imperfections
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Old 04-19-2013, 09:16 AM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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This is very well said

I can't explain how depressing it feels to know that if I want to interact with society, I have to pile in my money pit also known as automobile.

Furthermore this forces me to game plan every single place I'm going for ideal "avoiding traffic/wasting gas" . Absolutely no sense of excitement or adventure. Every single day feels just like the last. Same roads, same lights, same direction. No social interaction. Return home and hide in house away from the world outside.

Depression.
Your post is very inaccurate. We in the suburbs are always interacting. At neighborhood functions, kids activities, school activities, bunko night, wine tasting night, steel drum bands at the pool, block parties, fundraisers, girl scout cookies, soccer, cheer, swim team, etc. Newer master planned communities are taken care of - the people who live there are stakeholders - high percentage of owner occupied interested in protecting their community as an investment.

Almost everyone owns an automobile. Carless people are the extreme minority.

You can have your inner city high density living environment: pollution, homeless, noise, dependence on inflexible public transportation, overall lack of green space, traffic, crumbling infrastructure, crime, pawn shops, fumes, vagrants, drifters, impersonal interaction at doorways, stray dogs, rude drivers, high percentage of those who aren't stakeholders (renters - they don't care about their community - they're only renting).



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Old 04-19-2013, 09:24 AM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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I like looking at all that burbs from an airplane. So neat and perfect looking.... then on the ground u see all the imperfections
Ya, like what?
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Old 04-19-2013, 09:52 AM
 
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Ya, like what?
"Little boxes made of ticky-tacky and they all look the same." Not every suburb but all too many of them of late.
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Old 04-19-2013, 11:15 AM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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"Little boxes made of ticky-tacky and they all look the same." Not every suburb but all too many of them of late.
What's the problem? What do you have against homes in the suburbs? Since many of them are owner occupied and the post 1990s homes are under an HOA, these homes are well managed and well maintained. Landscaping, structure, furnace and A/C, etc.

They don't all look the same. Some tracts look very similar but most builders have a half dozen plans with several different layouts. color schemes, and different elevations.

You think all these homes look the same?

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Old 04-19-2013, 11:49 AM
 
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Those picture actually look awesome to me.
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