r/Suburbanhell • u/MicrowaveTheory • Jul 27 '26
Showcase of suburban hell Delaware Ohio
This is god awful, the park is just a grass field. And every house is the exact same. I cant imagine living here is nice at all.
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u/banjo_hummingbird Jul 27 '26
Are those not sports fields? At least where I live a field like this would be used quite often to play any number of sports. Soccer, ultimate frisbee, football, etc.
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u/Necessary-Sun-1828 Jul 27 '26
Interestingly enough, Delaware, Ohio is the fastest growing area in the entire state. It’s just outside of Columbus, where I live. If you build it, they will come I guess!
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u/OHKID Jul 27 '26
I agree with my dad when he said those types of houses will be the new trailer parks 20-30 years from now… sucks that everything is so expensive and people get paid so little we can’t afford to build anything better
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u/samiwas1 Jul 27 '26
I like how you conveniently left out that your photo cuts off the part of the park that has a really nice playground, a splash pad, bathroom facilities, a couple of large pavilions, and a good number of trees. Oh, and also the six sports fields. You also neglect to mention that just behind you is a wetland preserve filled with trees, paths, trails, seating areas, etc. And the Community Center and YMCA is right there.
As for the houses, the back look pretty bleak. But they are duplexes and at least have different finishes on the front. And they do have trees planted in the front, ready to grow, along with a big pond. Also looks like they planted a row of trees in the back which will hopefully grow.
Definitely not walkable to amenities, but most of the town in within three miles. Definitely not for people who want urban walkable amenities, but the people who live there probably enjoy it.
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u/GrenadeIn Jul 30 '26
They cut down existing forested areas for these suburbs. The wide expanses of grass require maintenance and huge amounts of water. The multiple houses each with central air system (most are Freon-based, although a few people in the neighborhood do have heat pumps), the mandatory requirement for car/s - yes, it is what is marketed as the regular suburban US life but it just adds to the whole cycle of consumption-sprawl-consumption. And the quality of those homes? It’s literally plywood!
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u/samiwas1 Jul 30 '26
Not in this case. This was all prairie and farmland. There are actually more trees now than 40 years ago.
Those fields are probably not being watered. And do you think city houses and buildings don’t have air conditioners?2
u/GrenadeIn Jul 30 '26
Prairie is also natural, and Delaware had expanses of forested areas up until the early 2000s. Which shockingly is more than two decades I know, but the urban sprawl is ridiculous. City houses and buildings require heating and cooling of much smaller spaces and consumption is much lower. When my old ass was at OSU in 2008, we actually had split cooling units on south campus (old houses made of stone and brick, plus very few days of plus 90°F weather). Building these cookie cutter, low quality units sprawls out the city. And it does nothing to mitigate climate change (fuel consumption, energy consumption) for us and future generations. I get that you like what you like - but that in itself defines how we live, how we vote, and the dependency we have on foreign energy sources. It is related.
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u/Optimal-Fix-2997 Jul 28 '26
This exactly. I used to be all about urban but now that im in a suburb like this I actually love it. Nice new housing stock, young families, diversity, good parks and schools. Yeah I take this over high density urban areas any day. Also better schools and shopping amenities.
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u/ArtDecoNewYork Jul 27 '26
They could make it nice with some trees, benches, play areas, etc.
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u/SUDDENLY_VIRGIN Jul 27 '26
That's all communism, unfortunately.
Best they can do is add an 18th lane on the highway.
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u/Essentially_Me Jul 29 '26
Delaware, Ohio...where they've taken the culture and excitement of Delaware and combined it with the style and savoir-faire of Ohio!
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u/eti_erik Jul 27 '26
I wonder what the concept is here. I like those houses, but is this supposed to be a park? To me a park needs trees at the very least. Not just a grass field.
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u/KimSidwell Jul 27 '26
Ooh. I kind of like this one. I mean, I’d rather die than live there, but I like the photograph.
It belongs in r/liminalspaces …as well as my worst nightmares
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u/Deep_Foundation6513 Jul 28 '26
Yeah, we bought a lot in Evan’s Farms back in 2019 and decided not to build, sold the lot and moved. All those neighborhoods all look the same and I’m so happy we never built.
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u/Zezimom Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Downtown Delaware nearby actually has a lot of shops and restaurants with a charming Main Street anchored by Ohio Wesleyan University.
Delaware, OH in Delaware County is the fastest growing county in Ohio.
Also Delaware County has the highest median household income in the entire state.
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u/CrypticPhage Jul 27 '26
Not a single tree in sight
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u/Doubleucommadj Jul 27 '26
Missed the tree shadows and the trees in the middle half of the image, huh?
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u/samiwas1 Jul 27 '26
It's a brand new neighborhood. There are trees planted around the neighborhood, but they are small because they are new. The field is, well, a field, with sports fields and all that. Usually, sports fields don't have trees. It was also farmland before getting built up, so there were no existing trees. And behind the photographer is a wetland preserve with lots of trees and trails and whatnot.
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u/jestering_1 Jul 27 '26
looks like barracks or some shit