Suburban Life in America SUCKS

[CannedHam]

We live in a reasonably large metro area in the US. Sucks for a number of reasons but is borderline tolerable. Since leaving high school I've always lived in a large city. I am now visiting some family in suburban Chicago before I fly to Asia next week to meet up with my wife and her family.

Holy SHIT am I reminded of how much suburban life sucks. I'm bored out of my f***ing mind when I'm done "working from home" and hanging out with family.

You need to drive literally everywhere. Coffee? 10 minute drive. McDonalds? 10 minute drive. The only thing I can see if I walk outside is an endless pool of cookie cutter homes. Streets are deserted and sidewalks are totally empty. While my wife was still here a few days ago we figured we'd go to eat out. I googled "restaurants near me". Applebees, TGI Fridays, Outback Steakhouse, Pizza Hut - nothing but the usual shit. Endless strips malls all filled with the same f***ing stores like GNC, Dollar Store, Subway, Dry Cleaning etc. I can't tell this suburb apart from 1000s of others in the US. No soul, no character, stuck-up people...

What is it that people enjoy about this lifestyle? I've lived in Asia, South America, and have spent some albeit limited time in large European cities and man those places were hustling and bustling. I could walk or take the bus/train to just about anywhere. People hang around, eating street food, joking, at all hours of the night. Tons of unique mom and pop stores and restaurants. Kids running around.

What the hell happened?

[Cornfed]

I wonder how much of this dystopia is deliberately engineered. You can criticise white men for not having rebelled and massacred their tormentors yet, but maybe much of the reason is due to plans to destroy any organic society being enacted long ago.

[Wolfeye]

It DOES actually seem to be engineered- if you go on Why Modern Architecture Sucks (Paul Joseph Watson on youtube), it gets into it. I don't remember specifics, but it has to do with GERMANY! Yet again. This is a big part of why I don't get white rights or white supremacists latch on to Germany so much.

They've done so much to f**k the overall world & blanket so many white people (Germans included) that I just don't get it. I remember someone Jewish, saying about their own situation, that their leaders frequently had a real talent for evil & people suffered- domestically & abroad. Maybe there's something about Protestantism that makes things similar? I remember Puritanism was called "American Jewry," so there seems to be something there.

[Moretorque]

Ther hole entire monetary system monpolizes all power and ownership to the top, it has been done on purpose. Our rulers have no use for the vast majority of us at all anymore, it has turned into one big corporate facist state as they wanted. They used western civilization as a vehicle to get where they wanted to go as far as total world wide control with the technologies the individuals created such as Tesla.

Look at the new 5G going up and from what I read Israel is not subject to this so that should tell you alot if true. They want to get rid of the whites because they see them as a threat to their diabolicle plans which are depopulate the planet to put the icing on the cake of their up and coming complete world wide slave state under the guise of democracy or socialism if you will, they lie about EVERYTHING! It's a complete top down dictatorship that has been layed down world wide...

[gsjackson]

We live in a reasonably large metro area in the US. Sucks for a number of reasons but is borderline tolerable. Since leaving high school I've always lived in a large city. I am now visiting some family in suburban Chicago before I fly to Asia next week to meet up with my wife and her family.

Holy SHIT am I reminded of how much suburban life sucks. I'm bored out of my f***ing mind when I'm done "working from home" and hanging out with family.

You need to drive literally everywhere. Coffee? 10 minute drive. McDonalds? 10 minute drive. The only thing I can see if I walk outside is an endless pool of cookie cutter homes. Streets are deserted and sidewalks are totally empty. While my wife was still here a few days ago we figured we'd go to eat out. I googled "restaurants near me". Applebees, TGI Fridays, Outback Steakhouse, Pizza Hut - nothing but the usual shit. Endless strips malls all filled with the same f***ing stores like GNC, Dollar Store, Subway, Dry Cleaning etc. I can't tell this suburb apart from 1000s of others in the US. No soul, no character, stuck-up people...

What is it that people enjoy about this lifestyle? I've lived in Asia, South America, and have spent some albeit limited time in large European cities and man those places were hustling and bustling. I could walk or take the bus/train to just about anywhere. People hang around, eating street food, joking, at all hours of the night. Tons of unique mom and pop stores and restaurants. Kids running around.

What the hell happened?

What happened? Post-WWII single use zoning standards in the U.S., among other factors. A book that tells the story fairly well is The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler. Also The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg.

[MattHanson1990]

I absolutely despise the suburban way of life. It's dehumanizing, atomizing, and it's soulless. Bland cookie-cutter homes, and nothing else except for chain restaurants, strip malls, and big box stores. The streets are also empty. No people out and about, just in their shiny cars.

And yeah, you're forced to drive everywhere in the suburbs because places are too spread out for walking distance; and public transportation sucks or is non-existent.

Thank goodness I now live in Mexico, and also thank goodness that most of the world hasn't adopted suburban life.

[Moretorque]

It wasn't like that when I was a kid coming along, people were out all over especially children. We had a cheap energy source in oil and the US was the biggest producer before the seventies.

I'll tell you who does a great video on this is James Corbett and " How Big Oil Conquered the World "... He exposes the people who truly do run everything including deciding what laws to make for the direction they wish to go...

[Contrarian Expatriate]

United States suburbs are specifically for blue pilled wage slaves who seek to use their home as their primary investment, the most stupid investment strategy ever.

Think of suburbs as communities where people (especially whites and middle class Americans) are made to feel that this is there territory in which to spawn offspring, and buy things to fill their low-quality McMansions with all the things that wifey desires.

The suburbs strike me as:

-Culturally bland
-Consumerist
-Socially isolating (especially for younger people)
-Designed to keep people on the treadmill of work and consumer debt until death.

Ironically, the marketed concept of white flight to the suburbs in the 1960s thru the 1990s began to reverse in the 2000s with the smarter, more professional or urbane whites moving back into cities where culture, cuisine, and services were more accessible and plentiful. Older Americans often find the cities to be more practical for them also. This is not to say that the suburbs are dying, but they remain for the type of people that represent the very worst of the sheeple mentality that I abhor.

[E Irizarry R&B Singer]

United States suburbs are specifically for blue pilled wage slaves who seek to use their home as their primary investment, the most stupid investment strategy ever.

Think of suburbs as communities where people (especially whites and middle class Americans) are made to feel that this is there territory in which to spawn offspring, and buy things to fill their low-quality McMansions with all the things that wifey desires.

The suburbs strike me as:

-Culturally bland
-Consumerist
-Socially isolating (especially for younger people)
-Designed to keep people on the treadmill of work and consumer debt until death.

Ironically, the marketed concept of white flight to the suburbs in the 1960s thru the 1990s began to reverse in the 2000s with the smarter, more professional or urbane whites moving back into cities where culture, cuisine, and services were more accessible and plentiful. Older Americans often find the cities to be more practical for them also. This is not to say that the suburbs are dying, but they remain for the type of people that represent the very worst of the sheeple mentality that I abhor.

A lot of McMansions suck because most of them are cheaply-built (e.g. no wall insulation so you can hear everything in a 2,000 ft radius).
This is why I love NYC project buildings. They were truly built for wall sound isolation as they were built in the late 60s for Viet Nam veterans, but ended up being occupied by newly immigrants. Why do you think that so many 80s and 90s rappers came out of NYC's housing projects making albums and mixtapes in their apartments and there was no Waves De-Noise machines to rid the sound??? It wasn't needed!!!!!! That's what a lot of people that live in the PJ's still do to this day in NYC: now with SOTA (state of the art) software plugins, you can get professional quality microphone recordings with 60-80 dbs of noise in the background subtractively --- no problem! People do this in the PJ's in the 90s because D&D Studios still charged a pretty buck for studio time and broke people on no record label budget could do that! That was their in-lieu solution! Yeah, also you couldn't hear a gunshot go off the next apartment over, it would sound a medium wall tap more than anything so yeah people were shot inside of these apartments and wouldn't be known for days that it had happened there.

[MattHanson1990]

It wasn't like that when I was a kid coming along, people were out all over especially children. We had a cheap energy source in oil and the US was the biggest producer before the seventies.

I'll tell you who does a great video on this is James Corbett and " How Big Oil Conquered the World "... He exposes the people who truly do run everything including deciding what laws to make for the direction they wish to go...

I grew up in the '90s (I was born in 1990), and even then the suburbs weren't as socially isolating as they are today...or at least where I grew up. My family and I were close with our neighbors, and they even invited us to dinner, lunch, or whatever. But then things started to change when we moved into a larger two-story house down a cul-de-sac in the summer of 1999. A couple of our neighbors we knew, but not quite as much as before. However, in the spring of 2000, I did befriend a couple of boys who lived a few houses down from where I lived. But then after that, we haven't known our neighbors since, especially by the late 2000s. Many new people living on our street had just been coming and going.

[Moretorque]

Boy Matt your just a baby pie, I was born in the mid 60's. The country really started to change big economically and for males when Clinton was elected and that was in the early ninties also 9/11 was a COUP plain and simple and after that they just floored it to get us all twisted to where we are today. The 1965 immigration act was also a big thing after they killed Kennedy to change the primarily european makeup and they changed alot of laws and the government just took off growing to the point to where today it controls practically everything...

[CannedHam]

It wasn't like that when I was a kid coming along, people were out all over especially children. We had a cheap energy source in oil and the US was the biggest producer before the seventies.

I'll tell you who does a great video on this is James Corbett and " How Big Oil Conquered the World "... He exposes the people who truly do run everything including deciding what laws to make for the direction they wish to go...

I grew up in the '90s (I was born in 1990), and even then the suburbs weren't as socially isolating as they are today...or at least where I grew up. My family and I were close with our neighbors, and they even invited us to dinner, lunch, or whatever. But then things started to change when we moved into a larger two-story house down a cul-de-sac in the summer of 1999. A couple of our neighbors we knew, but not quite as much as before. However, in the spring of 2000, I did befriend a couple of boys who lived a few houses down from where I lived. But then after that, we haven't known our neighbors since, especially by the late 2000s. Many new people living on our street had just been coming and going.

I'd say the 1990s were the end of that era. 9-11 plus the rise of the internet (and other tech like smart phones) IMO is what did it.

[HappyGuy]

What is it that people enjoy about this lifestyle? I've lived in Asia, South America, and have spent some albeit limited time in large European cities and man those places were hustling and bustling. I could walk or take the bus/train to just about anywhere. People hang around, eating street food, joking, at all hours of the night. Tons of unique mom and pop stores and restaurants. Kids running around.

What the hell happened?

American men were simps who let their women have the final say so nothing was done to change anything for the better and a lot was allowed to happen for the worse. Generations later the system remains unchanged, immigrants continue to pour in, children continue to suffer pointlessly at school and men continue to suffer in the workplace and fighting in pointless wars only to return to a society that hates them more than the warzone they just returned from. Of course you are bored of the lifestyle, there is nothing genuine here the consumerist system that we all feed and even fight wars to spread and enforce makes life worse every year for the people who live under it. And the system wouldn't work if we were happy it only works because we are unfulfilled and stressed and all we have to show for it is some money we then spend on purchases we don't really need to restart the cycle. When men have a realization that things have to change because this lifestyle is too shallow women and children insist they are happy so the men ignore their dissatisfaction for them and go back to sleep.

[Zero_Tolerance_Man]

EXACTLY! Hilary said it best. She said "This is a feminist nation" so it's all about what the vaginas want. That's why I am not married and don't have kids. I live in one of these miserable suburbs in FL. Cookie cutter houses, gated community, indifferent cold neighbors who you only hear from when they need to use you for something, at least 20 minutes in the car to get anything you need, and one strip mall after another. Living here sucks. I am thinking about making some trips. I wanted to go to the Dominican Republic for vacation but some say it's too dangerous. Maybe Costa Rica, or the Philippines since I talk to so many people there. I know one guy who lives in Vietnam and loves it. I am not sure what the answer is. I've saved 1.5 million and could easily retire, but I still like my work. But it's a grind nevertheless (even though I work from home). I'm not sure what to do. I try to have nothing to do with American women unless it's work or business related.

[HappyGuy]

EXACTLY! Hilary said it best. She said "This is a feminist nation" so it's all about what the vaginas want.

Talk to immigrant men about this. I was able to talk mostly to Hispanics but this should only be magnified for other immigrant groups, life for them is usually worse than where they came from especially socially. The American lifestyle hasn't been so great to them but their wives or ex-wives love it. So I used to think women were just told by the powerful media to believe America is the greatest culturally but I hadn't considered the selfish reasons they don't want anything to change nor would they want to leave America and go back to South America. Think about it an aging woman from Mexico who was average in her youth and didn't receive too many compliments back home comes to America and gets lots of attention from all the sexually frustrated guys. They even get proposals for sex and dinner from much younger guys still in school which inflates their ego. She might be fat and in Mexico she might have been considered old 30 years ago when she turned 25 but in moving to America she becomes a sexy fit "cougar" compared to the morbidly obese American women in her town.

No wonder immigrant women love America if it offers them the fountain of youth!

And women get preferential treatment in the workplace and have higher salaries per hours worked than men, so even if they are unhappy on some level they would never want to change anything and give up the privileged position they currently have. American women love America, immigrant women love it even more.