That city is a 4000-acre parking lot, and the annoying kind with coin-operated meters.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously, max, what IS the deal? There are no stores of any kind out there! No laundromats, no dry cleaning, no groceries, no restaurants, no drugstore, one little hardware store that closes at 6pm, until you get to Fulton (still not much there) or far enough west that it's Clinton Hill-ish.
― the wheelie-suitcase of the sky plus WITH SPIKED BARBS (Laurel), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
I might as well live in the suburbs.
p much my conclusion from this thread & others is that everyone should live in college towns
― Euler, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i dont really get it either. i guess its always been a really residential neighborhood but youd think thered at least be like a key foods on fulton or something? lewis is like the main commercial drag and there are what like five stores on it? and three restaurants? and the cafe went out of business
― max, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
people should live where they want
― goole, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
I want to live on Mars
― Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
i think the lesson is, you moved out of the city to escape the assholes, but the assholes followed you, on the internet.
― goole, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
people should all live in new hampshire
― max, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
I would settle for living in one of the underground cities in Cappadocia. If it's good enough for the Hittites, it's good enough for America!
― Euler, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
in fact one of the great things about (middle-class*) city living is buying your groceries the day you want to use them! so that stuff doesnt have to go bad! and you can decide what you want to eat!
pretty sure this can be done in the burbs too?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
oh, weird, never realized that *packs up stuff, moves back to suburbs*
― max, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
hopefully not my suburb
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
town ain't big enough for the both of us, son
can we drop the grocery talk? it was a pretty lol attempt at a trump card.
― iatee, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
*calls real estate agent frantically*
― max, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
xp: iatee, don't take me seriously. I'm only hoping for lols, not trump cards. I actually believe in living in apartments mixed-use developments and was as recently as this morning fantasizing about developing a high-rise with all that lotto money I'm going to get this weekend. But until then, it's home ownership and making fun of stuck-up city folk.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
But also, people should be allowed to like their suburban homes and lawns and nature and sunshine without being called "republicans".
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
Mars sounds really great until you calculate the posting lag. There would always be new answers on the active thread! You'd never get to actually post.
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
I am sure the Republicans who like their suburban homes and lawns and nature and sunshine would be very annoyed with this statement.
― Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
Funny how it gets turned into people having "incorrect" desires rather than cities being "incorrect" for not being able to address those desires.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
brb, gotta go tell henry that he has to go to the glue factory because the mean people on the internet said we shouldnt have a lawn
― let me save you some time - yes, you are probably anti-semantic (jjjusten), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
You could just let him do his business right there on the floor like cityfolk do.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
oh yay thread is reactionary again i.e. granny dainger is here
― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
it's a pretty shitty thread anyway. happy 9/11 everyone
― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
you must be from the suburbs
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
very sensitive
How about instead of reading "incorrect" desires we read this as "community features we feel are detrimental or undesirable." I've had conversations with people where they see nothing wrong with having no walkable resources, feel a row of big box stores next to the freeway makes a lot of sense, and so on. I'd say a lot of people here bring a lot of opinions and experiences to the table that make these seem detrimental, but it's condescending to assume others are idiots or have an entire swath of political ideas you dislike because they accept these things.
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
a lot of people have dogs in the city fyi
― max, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
also can i just be clear, i dont think anyone is "correct" or "incorrect" for their "desires," i just think that the human race will die if we dont all move to new hampshire
― max, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
xp: and they never pick up after them!
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
there are dogs that need lots of room and constant exercise fyi
― let me save you some time - yes, you are probably anti-semantic (jjjusten), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web02/2010/1/7/22/window-horse-20723-1262921599-62.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
like yeah you could have a siberian husky in the city, if you wanted to own a miserable dog i suppose
― let me save you some time - yes, you are probably anti-semantic (jjjusten), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
lock thread after PP's horse picture
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
if you wanna ride
― Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh yeah I had a neighbor at our apartment in Virginia who had TWO great big huskies in his apartment. It was like, "WTF is wrong dude buy a pug or bichon or some other toy breed."
― Balonious Monk (Phil D.), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno i see a lot big dogs, they seem p happy, obv i am not a dog shrink or whatever, i probably wouldnt have a dog in the city, "we need to take care of dogs" is a pretty bad reason to allow the rapid extinction of the human race tho
― max, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
maybe theres a way we could all share like a couple big lawns and some trees and nature shit that the dogs could also use
― max, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
dunno just spitballin here
But also, people should be allowed to like their suburban homes and lawns and nature and sunshine without being called "republicans". --kkvgz
again there's this idea that somewhere I said "everyone who lives in or moves to the burbs today is a white republican." that's pretty obviously false tho it's funny that your arguments against it are like 'Arlington va!' I think a fairly large % people move/live in the suburbs because there simply aren't affordable/viable alternatives. that's not due a law of nature, it's due to political decisions over generations and path dependency and, ultimately, a certain brand of American libertarianism.
also 'people in suburbs just love nature so much they can't live without it' is like 'animal lovers just love animals so much that they can't help eating them.' if you love nature, you care more about your effects on it than your proximity to it. lawns are not nature, they're a form of pseudo nature that has an incredibly destructive effect on the natural world.
― iatee, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
due to*
― iatee, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
Dude, I was talking about proximity to like state parks and shit.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
I am not living in a suburb that is next to shit
― Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry we destroyed the natural world.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/2647700969_2c207ef0c8_z.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/files/original/DaisyAd_1964_LBJ.jpg
10-9-8...
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
iatee luv ya bro but you really have no idea why people live in suburbs. all of your theories about it serve your pre-conceived notions.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
I could see a better argument made for people to stop eating meat and saving the natural world than yards being a feature in a place with 1000/sq. mile population density.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
afaict from this thread ppl move to suburbs to
― max, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
One day, ppl itt will learn to understand the difference between WE SHOULDNT LIVE IN CITIES BECAUSE DOGS, BRO and IF YOU LIVE IN A SMALL CITY APARTMENT, DON'T HAVE A GREAT BIG DOG BUT IF YOU HAVE LIKE 2,000 SQ FT AND A PARK NEARBY IT'S COOL.
One day.
Cryingindian.jpg
― Balonious Monk (Phil D.), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link