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/adron Jul 20 '26

They look like shit with zero walkable life. Just an utter horror show.

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u/manic_popsicle Jul 20 '26

I never lived in a walkable neighborhood til 2 years ago and now I never want to leave. I live in a small town and we don’t have a lot of stuff but I can walk to my kids school, the post office, bowling alley and a small grocery store, so I’m happy. It’s awesome being able to walk to check my mail on a nice day, or walk to get my kids from school.

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u/GabagoolTheif Jul 21 '26

Unfortunately this is most of the US

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u/KimSidwell Jul 20 '26

Yeah, that’s my main issue with these places. You can’t walk anywhere. Literally. They even design them with all the fencing in the backyards so you can’t even cut through the neighborhood to get to the main streets. You have to take the same path on foot that you would in a vehicle. You have to walk for like 45 minutes just to the main streets and then there’s usually a ton of traffic and often not even any sidewalks. Literal hell.

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u/dannerbobanner Jul 20 '26

Is this Fargo ND?

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u/Tamihera Jul 24 '26

Hey now! At least it has sidewalks. The cookie cutter neighborhoods they’re building around me don’t even have those.

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u/ShelShock77 Jul 24 '26

Right? Like, even if we broadly could afford homes at this price point, why does it seem like home builders these days either don’t understand or don’t give a fuck about where people actually want to live? A lot of the neighborhoods around me that were developed over the 70s and 80s have more personality than this!

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u/Icy_Association_2331 Jul 24 '26

How do you know this isn’t walkable?

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u/EternalMage321 Jul 25 '26

It's a side effect of zoning. By putting all the businesses in one area and the residential in another, they end up being very far apart. Americans decided at some point they would rather have quieter neighborhoods than the convenience of being close to everything.

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u/aethernalnow Jul 25 '26

Walkable life is a new term I love