Why do so much people hate on the Suburbs?? (suburban, crime, Detroit)
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I don't see how its a fake hellhole? those communities are defiantly real and they are quiet and peaceful. a hellhole would be ghettos like camden, gary and detroit.
People hate on the suburbs for a number of reasons.
1.) Suburbia lacks culture- Let's face it. Most culture in America is the bi-product of the city. From fashion to music to art, the city is the happening place, not the burbs. People in big cosmopolitan cities dress better than folks in the suburbs. Daily fashion on the streets of big cities like New York influence the way people all over the world dress. The city always produces the best popular music. It has been this way for decades and decades. In terms of popular music, Rap music has ruled the airwaves for the past twenty plus years. Unlike Jazz, Rock music and Pop music of the past, Rap's appeal does not rest on the ability to sing, compose music or play instruments. Rather, Rap music is the poetry of American inner city ghettos. Rappers from the suburbs are laughed at and seen as having no credibility.
2.) People in suburbia are viewed as being sheltered- One of the most common gripes about the suburbs is that people in suburbia have perfect lives and don't have "real problems". Living in a sketchy or dangerous inner city area is seen as cool when it comes down to it. All the popular fashion, slang and music originates from sh#tty inner city neighborhoods plagued by relative poverty, high crime rates, daily gunfire and plenty of senseless violence. Ironically, most American inner cities were once quasi-suburban areas inhabited by nothing but White people 50 or so years ago. Cohesively, the housing stock in most American inner city areas is not anywhere near as bad as the tin shacks in real third world locales in Jamaica and Haiti. I don't think there are any abandoned crumbling large single family homes in the ghettos of Indonesia and Africa like there is in Detroit. Living in inner city environs rife with crime not only gives credibility to the minorities who were born and raised there. White hipsters and other wealthy mostly White folks raised in nicer city neighborhoods and the burbs gain credibility from their suburban dwelling friends by living in "rough" gentrifying inner city neighborhoods.
3.) People from the suburbs are boring- People from the suburbs are seen as boring and whitebread. Stereotypically, they dress plain in JC Penney style outfits and drive boring cars like generic Honda Accords and Dodge Minivans and live in boring cookie cutter neighborhoods. Suburbs are also seen as lacking diversity and everyone looks bland and the same unlike the city which has its share of wacky homeless people, drop dead gorgeous women, winos, scary gang bangers, weirdo hipsters, awkward fresh-off-the-border/boat immigrants etc.
4.) There is "nothing to do" in the suburbs- All of the best shopping, wining and dining, bars and clubs, museums and any type of entertainment, period, exists in the city. The only attractions most suburbs have is the local mall. Unlike the city, there are no strip clubs or packed nightclubs that close at 4 AM in most suburbs. Unless you are under 17 years old, the suburbs are insanely boring. This is because the suburbs were founded primarily as a place to raise kids. Cohesively, the city is a crappy place to raise kids for this exact reason unless you are rich enough to live in one of the wealthy crime-free city neighborhoods. Who in their right mind wants to raise their kids around liquor stores, chop shops, strip clubs, teenagers who shoot military issue guns at each other for wearing the "wrong color" and tons of crazy homeless people when you can live in the quiet of the burbs?
Last edited by LunaticVillage; 10-23-2012 at 07:34 PM..
Unlike the city, there are no strip clubs or packed nightclubs that close at 4 AM in most suburbs.
Oh, there's strip clubs in the suburbs all right. Remember the message of most of the post-1950s TV shows about suburbia, that there's a dark underbelly to its whitebread existence. Well, there is, a little bit :-).
Take this post from another board about Urbana, MD (Frederick County):
"Oooh, the Rabbit’s Foot. That brings back memories. I never went there, but I used to hear all about “Ladies Night”. That was back in the day when the motel behind the old truck stop at the I70/Rte355 intersection had rooms available by the hour…
*That* was when the name “Fredneck” really fit"'
Is it true that suburbs are stereotyped to be more right politically? I do see many "Conservative" yard signs in the burbs
True here, and probably most other cities which experienced "white flight"
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