Anonymous wrote:For me, I get that people want different lifestyles, but the way America's suburbs are design is so incredibly horrible for the environment that it's hard for me to understand.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm confused by the people who want yards. I think I'd rather live right next to or very close by some awesome parks. When I was growing up, we only played in our yard until we were 6 or 7, then it was just playdates with other kids.... which you'd have to drive to in the 'burbs. My city kids walk around the block to play with their friends. Sure you need money, but DC is amazing for having close-in neighborhoods with green space and parks and being pretty safe.
Suburbs have both great parks, great yards, friend to walk to.
Capture the flag, catching lightning bugs while parents visit on the deck.
Have you ever lived in a city? Do you think that doesn't happen here too?
So we get a yard AND friends running to park. How is that not better?
Who wants to mow a lawn? Treat grass?
No thank you.
Suburban dweller here. You really think we all mow our own lawns? In my neighborhood its generally just the retired military guys who mow their own lawns. Otherwise we contribute to the local economy by hiring lawn services.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At this point, we could afford very nice urban living, but we prefer to have neighbors with a wider diversity of political viewpoints.
Yes, there are very good people on both sides.![]()
Anonymous wrote:At this point, we could afford very nice urban living, but we prefer to have neighbors with a wider diversity of political viewpoints.
Anonymous wrote:Because we’ve been conditioned not too.
America is a modern experimental country and we are having to deal with a myriad of poorly thought out decisions by, generally speaking, racist white men in early and mid 20th century.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm confused by the people who want yards. I think I'd rather live right next to or very close by some awesome parks. When I was growing up, we only played in our yard until we were 6 or 7, then it was just playdates with other kids.... which you'd have to drive to in the 'burbs. My city kids walk around the block to play with their friends. Sure you need money, but DC is amazing for having close-in neighborhoods with green space and parks and being pretty safe.
Suburbs have both great parks, great yards, friend to walk to.
Capture the flag, catching lightning bugs while parents visit on the deck.
Have you ever lived in a city? Do you think that doesn't happen here too?
So we get a yard AND friends running to park. How is that not better?
Who wants to mow a lawn? Treat grass?
No thank you.
Suburban dweller here. You really think we all mow our own lawns? In my neighborhood its generally just the retired military guys who mow their own lawns. Otherwise we contribute to the local economy by hiring lawn services.
God forbid kids do chores.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why the obsession with huge houses 3 miles away from everything. Why not access to parks, trails, restaurants, schools, grocery stores, socializing in coffee shops, biking etc?
The American obsession with SFH is unsustainable environmental, financially (impossible to maintain long exburban roads) and mentally
We do embrace it, and that's why its so expensive to live in urban cores.
Yep, exactly. And a lot of the people who move out of the cities WOULD live there if they could afford to do so.
A lot more people can afford to than actually do, they just refuse to live in a condo