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This country is so ugly. I remember taking my first road trip and realizing America is largely just a freeway exit with a gas station, McDonalds, and several big box stores, all with parking lots large enough to host dozens of football matches.
It’s the reason I have little desire to visit other cities in the US. They’re all the same. This image represents nearly every population center in the country. George Carlin said it best, America is just one big shopping mall.
Just some advice for others who want to avoid the same experience: The larger the roads, the less interesting the roadsides. Interstate highways were made for getting from big city to big city and are rarely scenic or memorable.
Don’t forget personal injury lawyer’s offices to capitalize on all of the death and destruction caused by car-centric development
Joumana is watching.
I live in an old, once-redlined streetcar suburb, and my folks are about a half hour away in a new, nearly-exurban tract home development. They love to see their grandson and are happy to babysit him when my wife and I want a date night, but we’ve just about stopped taking them up on that offer because every restaurant in a reasonable distance from their neighborhood is some mediocre, mid-market national chain that’s utterly devoid of charm, serving plates that have been ruthlessly value-engineered to minimize the need for specialized equipment or skilled talent in the kitchen. The area is quiet, I guess, and I’m sure the land was cheap, but there’s no there there.
“but there’s no there, there”
I like this phrase.
Can’t take credit – it was originally coined by Gertrude Stein – but it’s a very apt turn of phrase to describe the placelessness of American suburbia.
This is just a more verbose way of saying the
Old person: Why don’t kids want to go outside these days?
The outside they built:
meme.
How is it more verbose if you used more words?
I count 39 words in the OP meme, if we just assume the hyphenated words as a single word to give maximal benefit of the doubt.
There are 15 words in the proposed meme from the above comment.
So, where did he use more words?
The original meme I was referencing:
Which I think conveys the same idea much more concisely.
Even better.
I assumed the 15 words were just to replace the initial 4.
Ahh. I assumed no additional labels necessary as most of those images would be rather self explanatory considering the proposed setup.
What’s the issue with garden style apartments? Always thought they were a nice mix of communal space and higher density living?
They’re not necessarily a bad thing, they’re just not ideal. They tend to have massive amounts of parking and cause induced demand and some of the same issues
I’m so glad I was born in Europe
Apparently so is OP by the way they spell center
That’s also the Canadian spelling, and most Canadian towns, cities and neighborhoods look like this unfortunately
Fair enough
Canadian here
Hello from West Coast 🇨🇦
But then again OP used the colonial “freeway” instead of the correct “motorway”. Same with apartment instead of flat
This is depressing but mostly true…
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I’m so rich I can sneer at the middle class starter pack
CONTEXT. USE IT.
This was shared in !fuckcars for a reason dammit. OP is criticising the car-centric urban layout of those suburban environments, not the people living there.
Oh, is that what they’re trying to say, that OP is making fun of the middle class? I thought they were being unhinged and saying that these were things that upper-class white people have and use to view themselves as “superior”.
Historically, the ones living in single family suburbs are the classist petty bourgeois. Suburbs were invented by segregationists to price black people out of living in white neighbourhoods.
The fuck? That is what the American middle class looks like. If your life doesn’t look like that, then you’re not middle class.
Or you live in the civilised world
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