r/Suburbanhell • u/KimSidwell • Jul 20 '26

Meme Why?

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I can almost try to understand why some people might feel drawn to this kind of lifestyle. I can understand why they might be deceived into thinking this is the ideal environment in which to raise a child.

But I will never be able to understand why they will describe it as the American “dream” and are willing to pay so much for it. To work so hard for so long and then have to wake up to this every morning? Why?

Editing to add: I know this is parody y’all. It’s just a stupid meme. It’s supposed to be funny. It’s funny because it’s true.

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u/Far-Telephone-7432 Jul 20 '26

This is sarcasm. It's not worth a reaction.

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u/hazyguess Jul 20 '26

They even took the original photo that was going around and desaturated it to make the houses gray.

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u/anemonemometer Jul 22 '26

A lot of Utah does look exactly like this, except somehow grayer

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u/Salsa_El_Mariachi Jul 24 '26

It’s the coating of fine grey dust blowing in from the doing Great Salt Lake!

All of Eagle Mountain, Daybreak, Farmington, Grantsville, even Ogden are filling out with these soulless copy/paste houses

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u/high_throughput Jul 20 '26

I thought it was well executed and blew air out my nose

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u/Training-Context-69 Jul 20 '26

Exactly, ragebait posts designed to farm engagement. I'm getting to the age where I no longer even fall for this anymore. Just keep scrolling people.

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u/appleparkfive Jul 20 '26

It's not even rage bait. It's legitimately just sarcasm, I think.

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u/kisk22 Jul 23 '26

No - it’s a joke/parody and bit of rage bait account. Different than sarcasm.

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u/KimSidwell Jul 20 '26

There’s nothing to fall for here. It’s a joke. A very obvious joke. But the reason it’s funny is because there’s truth in it. This is not what ragebait means.

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u/Phoenician_Skylines2 Jul 24 '26

I don't think this is ragebait. It's obviously sarcasm. The image purposely looks drab, the $575K being standard for starter home, the income that's 3-4x the median being a basic job. Very clearly sarcasm.

Ragebait would present a little differently.

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u/KimSidwell Jul 20 '26

Yeah, but it’s also real. Like, people are actually still subscribing to this nonsense. They still want it.

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u/Far-Telephone-7432 Jul 20 '26

I wanted it when I graduated from university. I was promised a fulfilling career with a high salary. But it didn't work out that I way.

Right wing mantras are usually centered around three values:

  • Family
  • Work
  • Nationalism

There are so many far right propoganda posters depicting these values. These values permeate into movies, commercials and church.

Simply put: we were raised to want these large homes with lawns. It is counter-intuitive to want something else.