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

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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.

Bethesda Maryland and Arlington, Virginia are Democratic voting suburbs

we've beat this idea to death itt 1xbln times, but there's a diff between "suburb" as someplace near but outside the formal borders of a named city and "suburb" as recently-built very low density freeway-centered development. "suburb" A is not really what pro-urban people are criticizing, a lot of those places are materially indistinguishable from the "real" city.

yeah laurel that hood is really surprisingly lacking in grocery stores, considering that its been pretty middle class for the last couple decades

right - Arlington is more of an urban area than anywhere in 'big city' Jacksonville Florida

xp

oh man Jacksonville.

That city is a 4000-acre parking lot, and the annoying kind with coin-operated meters.

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.

I might as well live in the suburbs.

p much my conclusion from this thread & others is that everyone should live in college towns

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

people should live where they want

I want to live on Mars

i think the lesson is, you moved out of the city to escape the assholes, but the assholes followed you, on the internet.

people should all live in new hampshire

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!

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?

oh, weird, never realized that *packs up stuff, moves back to suburbs*

hopefully not my suburb

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.

*calls real estate agent frantically*

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.

But also, people should be allowed to like their suburban homes and lawns and nature and sunshine without being called "republicans".

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.

But also, people should be allowed to like their suburban homes and lawns and nature and sunshine without being called "republicans".

I am sure the Republicans who like their suburban homes and lawns and nature and sunshine would be very annoyed with this statement.

Funny how it gets turned into people having "incorrect" desires rather than cities being "incorrect" for not being able to address those desires.

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