People Who Live In Suburbs: Classy, Icky, or Dudes?

hmm didn't you start the thread about living with rednecks? xp

I lived in a 70s-vintage apartment complex in the suburbs for nearly five years after college (mostly due to inertia) and it leaned fairly left, as far as I could tell. It also had a nice lawn area and a pool and people met up to play volleyball and stuff.

Lawns are awesome.

TS: Running around under a sprinkler on a lawn vs. running around under a fire hydrant in the street.

You can feel free to drop by to weed my flower beds and mow my lawn, people who are into lawns but do not have them, if you like!

I apologize for the ridiulous outburst, just sick of people like max intentionally pushing buttons. Like, iatee didn't deserve any of the ire I threw his way, he is at least able to debate sensibly about this topic. But posters like max, spouting shit just purely to push buttons, annoy me to no end.

And its 100% not me being pissy because I live in a suburb, I'm pissy about the lazy stereotyping itt. And I don't believe I'm the only one.

u should move to the city, u'd get a thicker skin

what the fuck is your problem?

How about instead of telling everyone to get a thicker skin, you stop being an asshole?

i dont have a problem, my neighborhood has a walkscore of 92

I'm proud of you.

mine has a walkscore of 69, maybe you should think of the compromises you could make to live in a place with a hilarious walkscore like that.

Seriously max, I want to hash this out. How have I ever offended you? You came into this thread this morning specifically to fuck with me and goad me on? Why?

How awesome is it to walk your groceries home?

dude, you came into this thread this morning to fuck with yourself, im just along for the ride

Do you have to make multiple trips?

"Today'll have to be Milk Day, I guess..."

Postin' up on the ave with a 24-pack of toilet paper on your shoulder. "Hey, Ladies!"

grocery store is a block away!

max, this isn't a good look :(

living in the city and shopping for groceries is actually totally easy--i promise--literally millions of people do it every day

I was getting burned out from constantly hearing the people above me below me and beside me, getting woken up everytime the guy upstairs came home at 2 in the morning, every time he had a row with his girlfriend, etc etc.

This seems like a result of poor construction or poor planning/design more than "cities, as a thing"? Agree that it would be a drag!

haha okay okay ill stop fucking with the guy who told me he wished i had cancer cause i called him sensitive

A) I took that back, that was not something I should have said.
B) You were fucking with me well before that, hoping to extract that exact reaction.

I'm just pissed at myself for falling into yr trap.

it would be a bad idea to c/p like 30 posts from here to "posts very much in character", right

homie literally the first thing i said on this thread was "people from the suburbs are sensitive"

I have 4 very large grocery stores within a 4 min walk of me fwiw as well ad countless speciality shops and bodegas. really easy.

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Postin' up on the ave with a 24-pack of toilet paper on your shoulder.

Where did you go for this, Costco? I buy 4 rolls at a time, tyvm.

homie literally the first thing i said on this thread was "people from the suburbs are sensitive"

Right, then your next post specifically referred to me by name, so, try again.

It's way cheaper to buy that much. Also no, not at Costco. Just regular old supermarket.

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!

omg did i poke fun at you for two posts in a row?????? aggghhh cant believe i did that *writes apology letter*

There are also shitty, communist-assed apartment complexes

Still trying to understand any of this!

I think its ok for me to not be a fan of the stereotyping itt. I mean, yes I do live in a suburb, but I also take public transportation every day to and from work (with the exception of days I have to drive, once every two weeks, to off-site construction meetings). I live in a very dense, walkable neighborhood that makes it really easy for me to walk as much as I can. I just get riled up at the assumptions that we all live in McMansions with expansive lawns, no sidewalks, and are dumb conservatives.

I think its fair to be kind of annoyed by people assuming otherwise.

the big issue with "it's cheaper to buy in bulk!" is the assumption that you have someplace to put this stockpile of cheap goods; space is going to be at a premium in the city and, unless you enjoy mounds of clutter, it may not make sense to buy large quantities of things

lol I also buy in large quantity and can comparison shop 6 places if I really want to save money. there is also a Costco not esp far away (one in manhattan too)

The thing with grocery shopping too is that I find it easier to walk once a week to pick up the neccessities, which are easy to carry back home. The problem comes with people that wait 6 weeks to do any grocery shopping so their pretty much forced to do some huge trip that requires a car.

appalled at my own misuse of "their"

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!

Did not realise that that's the reason. I thought I was just being lazy and inefficient by only thinking one meal ahead. *struts* (to the nearby shitty little supermarket)

The shitty apartment thing, I sort of get it, maybe? In my home town, there was only one apartment complex, and it was one of those "townhome community" things, and I definitely felt like it was for people who couldn't afford to buy a house, or qualify for a loan/mortgage, and that was sad and kind of embarrassing for them. I'm pretty embarrassed myself, remembering it. But that was the message I got from adults. Because the only way to be the right kind of citizen was to own a home.

This is the kind of fuzzy-headed thinking that got us where we are, I suspect?

xp welllll thats how i *used* to think about it, but then i "reframed" my laziness as a positive attribute

Strawman communities everywhere

ps all this lol attempt at trolling 'how do you get groceries???' stuff - I mean even if the ppl itt did live in urban areas where it was hard to get groceries, that would ultimately be due to the fact that the cities simply weren't dense enough to support the business. my gf lives in a pretty walkable college town going through a downtown renewal of sorts and they're finally building a grocery store downtown - at the bottom of a brand new 20 story apt building. next to a train station. not some crazy coincidence, these things go hand in hand.

also: http://www.peapod.com/

tbh, I don't get groceries, I just live off of fast food and the liquor and chips that they sell at the convenience store because no grocery store will move into my neighborhood.

Now that I've made that horrible reference, I am suddenly wondering if markers grew up in an underprivileged neighborhood and really does live off of slurpees and snacks

Sometimes I live in the country/Sometimes I live in the town/Sometimes I take a great notion/Just to jump into the river and drown

I don't get groceries, I just live off of fast food and the liquor and chips that they sell at the convenience store because no grocery store will move into my neighborhood.

lol because I live in a food desert right now. Probably passed two dozen bodegas last night, looking for one open store or restaurant.

Great thread. Wish I could contribute more, but I live in a house with a front yard and a back yard. It takes me five minutes to drive to my workplace in the downtown district. I park in a free lot and walk the rest of the way (after dropping the kids off at their daycare.)

I don't think there's anything wrong with making a very general assumption that suburbs are conservative. It's why Republicans in redistricting prefer cutting up metros like pizza slices instead of the Democratic way of shaping districts like bullseyes. It's no different than saying Kansas is conservative, even thought they've had a recent Democratic governor and Lawrence is still doing its progressive thing.

There are shitty apartment complexes everywhere though. In fact, they're probably shittier the further from an urban area you get.