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Yes, I know that there are objectively bad suburbs, but people love to hate on suburbs and how they are apparently hell on earth, especially the stereotypical American cookie cutter identical tract house suburbs. Nearly every post I see that even remotely references them is about how they're "hell", "unlivable", "soulless", "conformist" etc. This might be my personal bias/experience since I grew up poor but i definitely prefer the "terrible" mcmansion hell suburbs that everyone hates over the rural hick town i grew up in. I would also take the suburbs over living in the center of a major city, or the sardine-can cramped walkable cities that people who hate the suburbs love within a heartbeat.
I live in the suburbs now, it's walking distance from where me and my gf work, in a nice area with things to do without having to go directly into the city, and i have neighbors who aren't yelling at 3 am or cooking meth like the ones who live in where i grew up. There is literally nothing else I could ask for. The people who complain about suburbs being unlivable are 95% people who grew up in well off suburbs who think the slightest inconvenience is a major problem. You live in a nice house in a quiet neighborhood that's near decent schools, nearly any major store or chain you can think of, easy access to the major metro area your suburb is part of but it's apparently boring? Your house looks the same as your neighbor's? You need a car? What a nightmare. The only valid points for suburbs being bad are HOAs and overdevelopment but besides that, they're great
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I live in the suburbs now, it's walking distance from where me and my gf work, in a nice area with things to do without having to go directly into the city, and i have neighbors who aren't yelling at 3 am or cooking meth like the ones who live in where i grew up. There is literally nothing else I could ask for. The people who complain about suburbs being unlivable are 95% people who grew up in well off suburbs who think the slightest inconvenience is a major problem. You live in a nice house in a quiet neighborhood that's near decent schools, nearly any major store or chain you can think of, easy access to the major metro area your suburb is part of but it's apparently boring? Your house looks the same as your neighbor's? You need a car? What a nightmare. The only valid points for suburbs being bad are HOAs and overdevelopment but besides that, they're great
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