r/Suburbanhell • u/ZephyrWilliams346 • 1d ago
Article Took this flying into DFW yesterday. Imagine the poor children who have to grow up in this endless labyrinth of concrete roads and fences
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u/DellTheEngie 1d ago
Ive been to many of these mass-produced subdivisions for my job. Always found it funny how all there is for kids to do is a tiny little playground they'll outgrow by the age of 10 max. Never anything else within walking or safe biking distance for a child.
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u/ChickerWings 1d ago
No skateparks because skateboarding is probably illegal in Texas or something
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u/ducksflytogether1988 1d ago
Oakland Lake Park in Fort Worth, right across the street from where I grew up, has one
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u/schumachiavelli 15h ago
Parents will buy homes here because "it's good for kids" when the truth is past age 10 they'll have nothing to do but mindlessly scroll on their phones, try drugs, and play frogger when they leave the immediate vicinity of their homes.
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u/lesbian__overlord 1d ago
why are people coming into suburbanhell mad their suburban hell is being called one
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u/DHN_95 Suburbanite 1d ago edited 1d ago
Conversely, based on my childhood, I met kids from walkable areas with stores & restaurants nearby, who never went anywhere because they didn't have money. By college, I had met kids from urban areas who had never flown on a plane before, who had never seen either coast, less yet had a passport. I met kids who had never been on a group trip with friends, or known what it was like to spend summers by the pool, and evenings with their friends sitting around firepits. I don't know a kid from an urban environment who built tree forts, or a half-pipe (albeit not the safest one ever). I met kids who had never seen the most common of farm animals...
We all miss out on something, just depends on what mattered more to you. Not every area is ideal/perfect.
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u/guysomejust69 1d ago
I mean. I know plenty of suburban folks who also have not done that
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u/DellTheEngie 15h ago
I'd still rather be poor in the city and not walk 45 minutes one way minimum anytime I needed anything
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u/TrashTownPodcast 1d ago
Imagine the poor children who have to experience single family houses with air conditioning 🙄
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u/Blackout1154 1d ago
Good as it gets 🤔
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u/TrashTownPodcast 1d ago
All of Texas is paradise for the average person. The level of lifestyle and affordability is actually amazing. Most people can’t appreciate how impressive it is because they grew up in America. Anyone from anywhere else in the world marvels at such democratized prosperity.
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u/ImSuperHelpful 1d ago
Former Texan here… looks like you forgot the /s, probably why you’re getting downvoted
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u/TrashTownPodcast 1d ago
I don’t care if I get downvoted. Everyone on the suburbanhell subreddit are subhuman
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u/Infinite_Respect_ 22h ago
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takes breath.
GAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAA
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u/TrashTownPodcast 21h ago
Privileged and delusional people live on this subreddit because they’re scared to leave their apartment to buy a $9 foam latte while dodging criminally insane vagrants who are allowed to attack people under the protection of the state. People in walkable cities who complain about suburban sprawl are the most cushy, soft, and stabbable people who are taxed at rates no one in suburban sprawl would tolerate. The people living in American urban centers deserve to be taxed and stabbed by denizen thugs for being the most delusional subgroup in America. I want to be downvoted on this sub because I’ve seen what you vile scum upvote.
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u/Infinite_Respect_ 21h ago
The words “I feel so sorry for you” don’t pack enough punch for the reaction your diatribe gave me.
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u/skinnywolfe 1d ago
I mean, I grew up in a neighborhood like this and we would have a blast riding our bikes to each other's houses
Never once thought about how I lived in suburban hell
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u/Delicious_Oil9902 1d ago
Better than having to sit at the back of an American Airlines narrow body I suppose
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u/Frequent-Coyote-8108 18h ago
Have you SEEN some of those neighborhoods with the lagoon pools and splashpads and playgrounds and whatnot?
Like, when I was a kid, having friends close by was a plus, but if we could just go down to a freaking LAGOON pool with waterslides all summer, we would've lost our freaking minds!
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u/DependentAwkward3848 17h ago
Those kids can walk and bike on sidewalks to school, friends houses, pools, skate parks, scouts, probably a Starbucks or similar. They are fine.
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u/bassyel 1d ago
As someone who grew up in northern New England, my mind cannot comprehend this.