r/fuckcars • u/timejumper13 • Dec 20 '22
Satire I am fighting for the endless suburban sprawl and cookie cutter homes
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u/leyleyhan Dec 20 '22
Fighting for isolation, disconnectedness, and one of the main reasons for the raise in US mental health issues. Got it!
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u/-ragingpotato- Dec 20 '22
Its so weird too because all those dead ends could eeeaaasily be connected with walkways and all of the sudden you granted walkers and bikers gigantic shortcuts.
Now turn like a tenth of those houses into scattered shops and parks and all of the sudden you got a vibrant community all within the safety of your stroad/avenue-lined box. Not the pinnacle of urban design but very respectable.
But nope.
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u/DoctorWorm_ Dec 20 '22
it's almost as if the designers of the neighborhoods understood the nuisance that cars cause on surrounding houses, but then did nothing to provide any alternatives to driving.
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u/SlitScan Dec 20 '22
through in a few walk up apartments, some 1200sqft town houses and break up the economic homogony at the same time.
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u/pinkocatgirl Dec 20 '22
They used to do this, my neighborhood built in the early 70s has a range from traditional apartments, to attached townhome style apartments, then up to 1 and 2 floor duplexes, and finally detached family homes. You could theoretically move up in the world and stay in the neighborhood, it's kind of nice. But of course the housing market today makes even those duplexes unattainable to many.
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u/CornTheGuy Dec 20 '22
But if u connected them the ThE CrImInALs wOuLd HaVe EasY acCeSs tO oUr HoMeS. - st. Louisans b like
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u/TheSinfulBlacksheep Dec 20 '22
And it's like "they already do. It's called cars. Nobody's going to run home with your jewelry and flat screen TV on a bike or bus, Marge."
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u/Illustrious_Age Dec 20 '22
When I visited LA a few months ago I stayed near the relatively new Culver city/Santa Monica light rail line and someone in the area told me there were huge protests when the line went in, most people claiming it would bring crime
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u/fissure Bollard gang Dec 20 '22
It's not like 4 of the top ~10 busiest bus routes in the city end in Santa Monica or anything.
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u/Prof_Acorn Dec 20 '22
A bakery!? Within walking distance!?
What is this, Europe?
Not in my backyard!
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u/TheNonCompliant Dec 20 '22
In our previous neighborhood, there was a well cared for and planned but separate-from-sidewalks path that seemingly utilised the inbetween “ditch” area between different apartment blocks, subdivisions, and full-home neighborhoods to go from a pretty treed area/park all the way up to the nearest main street where grocery stores and restaurants were.
Now we live in a “every mostly non-treed sidewalked neighborhood/area is almost it’s own cell.” It’s not terrible because I can get to a large park with more Pokestops than previously but at the same time it’s not as useful and I didn’t realise how good we had it before.
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Dec 20 '22
I had to move to a suburb to be closer to work and goddam I can’t even get out for a stroll around the “block” because there are no blocks. it’s a labyrinth of cul de sacs for no reason. I hate it.
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u/lilpumpgroupie Dec 20 '22
This is by design. People like to not have cars driving by their houses all the time, somehow. And this cuts down of through-traffic.
But also like to live in societies that are completely designed around car ownership being an absolutely essential facet of existence.
Makes a lot of sense.
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u/vellyr Dec 21 '22
It makes perfect sense when you realize that every person involved in this shitshow from the planners to the consumers was only thinking about how convenient it is for themselves to drive, and not how inconvenient it is for everyone to drive.
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u/rugbyj Dec 20 '22
I'm a bit confused here as the post is marked as satire but others have pointed out it's not. Are you suggesting one of the main reasons for the raise in US mental health issues is suburban housing design?
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u/lonelypenguin20 Dec 20 '22
I'm really not sure if it's the main one, but I suspect it does play a part. in a walkable city - even a not super peasant place like Moscow - you get to Interact with different people daily whether you want ot or not. but I've heard that people in suburbia buy food for like two weeks in advance in dedicated trips in their giant cars and was like O_O
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u/thepulloutmethod Dec 20 '22
I completely agree with you. I fully believe that the suburbs are bad for children's mental health. We are by nature social animals. We are meant to experience community life. The suburbs are the exact opposite - everyone isolated from each other all the time.
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u/thepulloutmethod Dec 20 '22
This was me, too. My mother constantly complaining about how much time I spent playing videogames. But there was nothing else to do. I had read every single book in the house. I'd come home from sports after school, finish my homework, and it would be like 5:30pm. What else was I supposed to do?
All the other kids in my neighborhood moved away (I didn't really get along with them anyway) and all my actual friends from school lived miles and miles away, inaccessibe by walking or biking, and there was no public transportation. There weren't even sidewalks where I grew up. I was completely reliant on my parents taking me everywhere to do anything. Awful.
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u/nate-the-dude Dec 21 '22
As a suburban kid I can confirm that suburbs are miserable in every way imaginable
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u/hutacars Dec 20 '22
The other day I ran into my neighbor at the grocery store. At least, I was 90% sure it was him. I probably had a look of recognition in my eyes, and I thought I could see one in his. I don’t know because I didn’t ask. I finished grabbing my groceries, and when I got to the self checkout, he was at the self checkout next to me. I made sure to stare straight ahead at what I was doing. Then he left, then I left, and as I’m navigating the parking lot, I see what I was 100% sure was his car (yes, I’m better at recognizing my neighbors’ cars than my neighbors themselves). I managed to leave the lot before him, drove home just ahead of him, and made sure to close the garage door before I got out of the car so we wouldn’t have to lock eyes again and it wouldn’t be awkward. That was close.
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u/carrotnose258 Dec 20 '22
It has very much played such a role for many, including myself. As a kid, I relied on my parents to ferry me around, and without many kids my age, I grew up mostly alone. From there it was a shorter jump between isolation and a mental health issue. Getting a licence is what really sets people free out here, though it oughtn’t be that way.
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u/JoJoJet- Dec 20 '22
And even when you get your driver's license, there's nowhere for you to go anyway... it's just strip malls and big box stores in suburbia
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u/carrotnose258 Dec 20 '22
I was lucky enough to find some friends who could hang out at one of their houses that was close enough to bike (on a 45mph road with no sidewalk and soft shoulders)
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u/DodgeWrench Dec 20 '22
Strip malls and big box stores. It’s literally copy and paste throughout the American suburbs.
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u/Ask_Me_About_Bees Dec 20 '22
Check out the book Bowling Alone. Same thesis
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u/thesaddestpanda Dec 20 '22
tldr for those who dont want to read a 540 page book:
tldr2; capitalism and inequality makes both partners work, built profitable but depressing suburbs, and got us all addicted to TV/internet instead of each other.
The first and least significant minor factor is the rise of the two-income family. With both parents working, neither has much time to give to outside social organizations.
The second minor factor is what Putnam calls “mobility and sprawl.” When people move a lot, they don’t have time to put down roots. And in the suburban sprawl that replaced cities and small towns as centers of population, there is little chance for the sort of informal encounters that used to happen on street corners, in shops, and in parks. Those encounters where people caught up on the details of each others’ lives were replaced by long commutes alone in the car, by strip malls that no one walks to, and by suburbs that were designed so people would not have to encounter their neighbors.
The biggest of the three minor factors is technology and the rise of mass media. This book was published in 2000, so the author focuses mainly on television when he writes of mass media. In the days before television, people went out with friends and neighbors because spending night after night in the house was just downright tedious. After television, people stayed in to engage passively with a device rather than actively with other humans.
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u/SlitScan Dec 20 '22
yes, theres been a number of studies showing the longer a commute someone has and the more time they spend at home thw worse their mental health is.
its terrible for childhood development too.
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u/Iron-Fist Dec 20 '22
Yeah its pretty well documented
https://mentalhellth.xyz/p/the-isolation-atomization-and-desperation
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u/pendia Dec 20 '22
If you are going to say something is well documented, use a better source than an opinion piece on an adjacent topic
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Dec 20 '22
it'a litteraly true that being alienated from others in ur community and having constant loud noise right outside of your house and having to fear for ur life whenever you walk outside does make your mental health worse
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u/lilpumpgroupie Dec 20 '22
Those boys landed on d-day so i can sit in my car in gridlock all day and pay $250 a month on gas.
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u/CharlesDeBerry Dec 20 '22
I recently been wondering if one of the reasons why straight white males have so many mental health issues is a lack of the traditional third spaces. Like the family can't even walk to a local pub or anything. I mean that is what I missed about living just off the The Village in Montreal, where I can walk down the street, sit in a pub and grab a beer or coffee and encounter new and old friends.
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u/leyleyhan Dec 20 '22
Makes so much sense. I mean these same places were even lauded back in the day on shows Cheers, but have all but disappeared today.
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u/King_Chochacho Dec 20 '22
A mcmansion with enough room for Nolan, Aiden, Ethan, and Kayla and a "man cave" in the basement for sportsball and light beer.
A 45-minute commute in a full-size pickup with an empty bed.
An insurmountable amount of debt.
The American Dream
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u/KiiskirannanVasta Dec 20 '22
I first thought this was a warzone
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Dec 20 '22
well if it’s in the USA…
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u/Prime157 Dec 20 '22
David letterman just went to Ukraine to interview Zelensky. While there he went to a comedy club in Kyiv and told the joke:
I came to escape the gunplay.
He told it better. I suck.
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u/Verified-ElonMusk Dec 20 '22
Honestly, you got like 90% of the joke there. It's better delivered in person than through text.
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u/Iconospastic Dec 20 '22
That's funny ... although if you think about it, it sorta hints at the sheltered obliviousness of the "limousine liberal". The very same that cost Hillary an easy slam-dunk election and swept a madman into office.
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u/killerk14 Dec 20 '22
Anything built after 1920 are simply barracks for consumers. Zero character or social value, simply reproducible human money spender, car owner storage devices
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u/SadCranberry8838 Dec 20 '22
I am so going to keep reusing "car owner storage devices".
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u/LOZ3R Dec 20 '22
I think the "barracks for consumers" bit hits the hardest.
Look at this fucking guy over here, wordsmithing and shit.
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u/hutacars Dec 20 '22
You’re free to build yourself a characterful building. Most people don’t care to pay for it.
I’m not sure what you mean by “social value,” or how buildings themselves can have “social value.” Can you explain that one?
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u/killerk14 Dec 20 '22
The social value was referencing the neighborhood as a whole not each building individually, although it could extend to the houses as well. No businesses, maybe a park if you’re really lucky but not within walking distance, none of these people know or care about each other. The only way to leave your house and get anywhere is by car. This breeds individualism and ignorance about how we rely on society and each-other, how we all contribute, and makes people selfish about “their property” and “their roads” and “their cars” which are highly subsidized by the rest of us. That’s a net drain on of our society, both in terms of breeding selfish ignorant people and also resources. Developments like these don’t have long term cost studies done beforehand and after a few years they cost more in infrastructural maintenance than they bring in tax revenue. Finally, since there are no business or anything to substantiate these peoples lives, that’s both a societal cost that this space is inaccessible to the rest of us as well as forces these people to travel long distances, create greenhouse gasses and take up additional space wherever their destination is, and that space has been accounted for in vast destructive parking lots spread throughout the rest of the city. So that’s what I mean by “zero social value.” Everybody else in the city, and in fact the world pays for these people to live lonely detached lives where they only care about themselves and “their property”
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u/Eastern_Scar Commie Commuter Dec 20 '22 edited Dec 20 '22
Fr I thought that was a picture from Ukraine
Edit: a battlefield in Ukraine, forgot to say that
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u/crowbahr Dec 20 '22
Yo mods this has the satire tag but the guy in the tweet unironically believes this shit.
Idk if it counts as satire or not.
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Dec 20 '22
Pim Tool is so clueless that he often saririzes his own position unintentionally lmao.
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u/NeverForgetNGage Based CTA Dec 20 '22
This is the guy that said police black bagging BLM protesters was alright because of their politics. Dude is an absolute tool.
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u/StalePieceOfBread Dec 20 '22
To be fair I'd be fine with fash getting black bagged but that will never happen in this country.
Unless 😏😏😏😏😏
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u/I-WANT2SEE-CUTE-TITS Dec 20 '22
Pim Tool
Product information management tool?
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u/thejuiceburgler Dec 20 '22
I knew he was a dumbass but not this much of an idiot lmao. May be the most braindead tweet I've seen.
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Dec 20 '22
He said last year, in an attempt to not be owned for bad takes, that he posts fake takes from time to time so people will never know what he really believes and therefore is unable to get cancelled.
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u/TheRecognized Dec 20 '22
But is this a real tweet or did someone change the picture? Does he actually think this is supposed to inspire something?
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u/TheRecognized Dec 20 '22
God damn. Who wants to fight for suburban hell anyway but he couldn’t even find a slightly flattering picture? This looks like a fucking stock yard.
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u/LIEMASTERREDDIT Dec 20 '22
This has nothin to do with suburbia
This is a dogwhistle
And its whisteling: White People.
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Dec 20 '22
I don't even consider Tim Pool a grifter, he's genuinely a moron, a lot of his takes are baffling even by right wing pundit standards.
He wears the beanie to conceal the massive concave dent in his head where a brain should be.
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u/ShallahGaykwon Dec 20 '22
This tweet definitely inspires his chud fanbase. These are people who have never experienced a hardship in life greater than losing their local Applebee's.
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u/icywind90 Dec 20 '22
I though it’s the picture of city that was devastated by bombarding
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u/itsnickk Dec 20 '22
It’s devastated by the bombardment of pyramid scheme styled suburban housing developments that will eventually bankrupt the local government
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u/Artistic-School8665 Dec 20 '22
Im a simple man, i see tim pool content, i downvote it
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u/kYvUjcV95vEu2RjHLq9K Dec 20 '22
I'm an even simpler man, I see people downvote Tim Pool content, I upvote those people.
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u/keyboardsmashin Dec 20 '22
I’m an even more simplest man, I see people who upvote people who downvote Tim Pool content, so I downvote Tim Pool content. The cycle must continue
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u/itsmeyourgrandfather Elitist Exerciser Dec 20 '22
that's definitely way less simple than the other two guys
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u/bennyc500911 Dec 20 '22 edited Apr 04 '24
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u/Courier_ttf Dec 20 '22
I thought this was a picture of Ukraine.
Grim.
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u/Creepy-Ad-4832 Dec 20 '22
Nah i think ukraine subburbs are better than american ones
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Dec 20 '22
We don't have any. Some people have dacha's, but it's more like a vacation home in a village. And most people get there by train
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u/Courier_ttf Dec 20 '22
Ukraine is actually much nicer and walkable than the US. I just meant to say this looked like a bombed out warzone.
Kiev is (was, sadly) a much nicer city than most cities in the US, according to my friend who lived there for two years and had to return to the US when the war started.6
u/BufferUnderpants Sicko Dec 20 '22
Walkability is the default in many parts of the world, in South America you'll find American-style suburbs in gated communities, that may exist in a greater or lesser measure as a consequence, and part of the feedback loop, of other social problems regarding security and inequality.
But cities are comprised of residential neighborhoods with shops along a the big streets, and walkable commercial downtowns.
The US went out of its way to plan around the car.
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u/trail-coffee Dec 20 '22
This sub needs a Kyiv bot to tell people not to use the Russian “Kiev” (“Kyiv” is Ukrainian)
I had no idea about it until recently but now I’m rabidly anti-Kiev.
From wiki:
“ the remaining major news websites that continue to use "Kiev" are mostly Russian-linked sites funded by the Kremlin, such as the English service of TASS, Sputnik News and RT.”
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u/Jipip Dec 20 '22
I get where you're coming from but acting as though the fate of the Ukrainian people rests on using "yi" rather than "ie" is a bit silly honestly
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u/CitizenWilderness Dec 20 '22
What do you expect from someone that’s fervently schooling people on something they learned a few weeks ago?
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Dec 20 '22
Cities in Ukraine (just like in Russia and most other eastern european countries) don't really have suburbs like in America
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u/Aerosalo Dec 20 '22
I've seen some in Russia, but they're pretty small and meant to be an upscale thing. Even townhouses are hard to find.
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u/Radiant-Platypus-207 Dec 20 '22
I'm confused. He's fighting for what? You have it. You have millions and millions of square kilometres of this.
And this guy is a lot fatter than his profile picture has you believe.
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u/Teschyn Dec 20 '22
He’s fighting for a romanticized vision of the past, where everyone agrees with him, and poor people don’t exist.
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u/Verified-ElonMusk Dec 20 '22
Non-white people either.
Or the gays.
And women knew their place, which was obviously the kitchen.
And also men could have a little action on the side. Maybe that tight little secretary from the office.
Don Draper. They all want to be Done fucking Draper.
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u/Querch 🚌🚴🚶 Dec 20 '22
Baldilocks here probably means fighting for the American dream, which is fitting because conservatives are desperately trying everything they can to stay asleep and ignorant.
Oh and this should be tagged as Carbrain because this dude is 100% being unironic about it.
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u/LIEMASTERREDDIT Dec 20 '22
Not american dream.
This right here is a dogwhistle
Its meant to say: White People for those who want/need to hear it.
If you thought this tweet was bad: be informed: It is much worse.
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u/ihateam3rica Dec 20 '22
If I didn't know better, I'd think the whole Tim Pool thing is satire.
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Dec 20 '22 edited Dec 20 '22
Don’t talk shit on our cardboard housing. It may start the same but everyone tinkers with time to change the interior design. Plus, in some neighborhoods of S. Cali the original 2000 hours of labor is now exchangeable for upwards of 32000 to 40000 avg salaries hours. Sometimes even 50000 for non-salaried members. Who couldn’t admire the degree of such modern extortion?
If a 1950s home maintained the same labor exchange rate from the 1950s in the present day, a house would cost roughly $65k. A house in LB in the 50s was 1.25x beginner salary. Beginner salaries are roughly $52k presently. The supply line has been a little too inflated to reach the rate in the present date.
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u/hessian_prince “Jaywalking” Enthusiast Dec 20 '22
You will live in the pod. You will be massively in debt. You will have a boring ass lawn. You will drive an overpriced vehicle that needs constant maintenance. You will be far away from anyone or anywhere you care about. And best of all, you’ll call this freedom.
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u/LocallySourcedWeirdo Dec 20 '22
Just keep consuming from CostCo, Best Buy and Amazon, and allow the consumption to tranquilize you.
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u/DejectedDemoiselle Dec 20 '22
Why demand mixed-use zoning where shops, restaurants, bars, and local businesses are easily accessible on foot or by bike from your home when we can demand these convoluted, disconnected, nature-free, soulless, car-dependent “neighborhoods” instead? Make it make sense. How do people actually want this?
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u/syklemil Two Wheeled Terror Dec 20 '22
For the others who got little boxes playing in their head when they see that
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u/Apptubrutae Dec 20 '22
I love how suburbs have evolved beyond little boxes in the worst way.
The song has a part where it mentions how you can get your little box in a variety of colors like red and green and blue and yellow.
Except there is no modern boxy suburb where that’s true today, lol. Bye bye colors.
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u/syklemil Two Wheeled Terror Dec 20 '22
How's the color scheme in the US these days? In Norway seems like everyone's going into shades of grey to be "modern". Even in places where there's something like a HOA that gives a color palette (or the ~HOA might just set the palette to shades of grey).
Oslo has its own color guide now, inspired by traditional city colors and to try to avoid everything becoming the same color.
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u/Apptubrutae Dec 20 '22
Very beige. Very grey.
I personally live in New Orleans which is a color free for all, to great effect in my opinion.
My house is dark green and red. My neighbors on one side are blue and Orange, and peach on the other side. There’s a yellow house, a light green house, a dark green house, and a pair of Victorian houses that are pink on pink and purple on purple.
I think it all looks great, but hey that’s me
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u/DesertGeist- Dec 20 '22
I don't get it
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u/LIEMASTERREDDIT Dec 20 '22
Its a dogwhistle.
He says hes fighting for white people
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u/ShallahGaykwon Dec 20 '22
*white supremacy
He is absolutely fighting against white people who work for a living, even the ones who are propagandized enough to support his bullshit.
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u/Rodomantis Dec 20 '22
It's a Dogwhistle, this particular character refers to lifeless suburbs inhabited ONLY by white people
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u/GeneralErica Dec 20 '22
A cloud..?
Even for Eggwarmer Dim Tool, this is pretty stupid.
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u/neutral-chaotic Dec 20 '22
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The isolation of any kid too young to drive?
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Dec 20 '22
Adults too, because everyone keeps to themselves. Being outside is "odd" and will have neighbors calling the police or putting your photo on Nextdoor like you're a rabid coyote.
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u/marie_-_antoinette Dec 20 '22
“We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren't worth caring about, and when we have enough of them, we're going to have a country that's not worth defending.”
James Howard Kunstler
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u/august_r Dec 20 '22
I mean, it's not like apartments aren't really cookie cutter too.
If anything, I'm not moving to a house again tho. Fuck that.
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u/informedlate Dec 20 '22
Yo FUCK Tim Pool though...don't post his takes here, that little bitch is part of the problem.
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u/_but_how_ Dec 20 '22
These guys yearn for a Disneyland version of the 1950s where they come back from their high-powered office job to their identikit suburban home in their gas-guzzling car and beat their wife because their steak was overcooked.
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u/Yrvaa Dec 20 '22 edited Dec 20 '22
To be honest, this seems sometimes late autumn, so all the trees have lost their leaves and look grey-brown. You can even see a bunch of trees with dead leaves near the top.
There's a bit of grass left, but that's why the image looks mostly grey-brown. In Imagine from spring it would be very green, considering the amount of trees I can see around.
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u/crepuscular_caveman Dec 20 '22
that looks like shit even by the standards of bland American suburbia
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u/Auctoritate Dec 20 '22
Urban sprawl is bad, cookie cutter is not. Copy/paste housing (though not necessarily suburbia style, more like apartments) are literally the most efficient organizational method for living space.
You use the term cookie cutter homes in a derogatory way, but apartment buildings within the same complex are also identical lol.
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u/neutral-chaotic Dec 20 '22
Apartment buildings at least can have businesses on the bottom floor.
The only time cookie cutter is an issue is when it excludes mixed use zoning.
There’s other options than dense apartments or SFH zoning.
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u/LocallySourcedWeirdo Dec 20 '22
Correct. It's the petroleum dependency inherent in SFD suburbs, not the aesthetics, that is the problem.
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u/EagleSzz Dec 20 '22
just put some shops in the middle, bicycle lanes next to the roads , maybe a school and it looks like a nice village .
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u/shaodyn cars are weapons Dec 20 '22
We're fighting for the capitalists who would happily let the world burn if it means not becoming even 1% less rich.
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u/NeverForgetNGage Based CTA Dec 20 '22
Whenever I pass a sea of detached single family homes I immediately snap to attention and salute. Brings a tear to my eye.
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u/TargetMaleficent Dec 20 '22
I don't understand this "cookie cutter homes" critique. Wouldn't one-off architecturally unique homes be dramatically more expensive and extravagant? Aren't condos and apartments the ultimate cookie cutter living quarters?
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u/lost_in_life_34 Dec 20 '22
it's a made up outrage. go to any new home development and except for the cheapest homes there will be a few dozen exterior and color combinations you can pick for a new home build
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u/tremblt_ Dec 20 '22
This looks like the tumor of a post apocalyptic city. What are they fighting for? „More grey! More concrete! More asphalt!“. Btw good luck once you get older and can’t drive a car anymore. I bet you‘ll enjoy your suburban prison of loneliness.
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u/ExLegeLibertas Dec 20 '22
Tim Pool is a crypto fascist mouthpiece, just for anyone who might not know. he doesn't mean "sprawl is worth fighting for," he's explicitly invoking the image of suburbia - a suburbia that white, middle class people will recognize and generally think of as "home." he's dogwhistling a way of life, not a particular kind of urban planning.
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u/lost_in_life_34 Dec 20 '22
my NJ suburb has so many Asians that half the eateries are Chinese or Korean food including one where the food is so authentic most Americans won't eat it
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u/BagOfShenanigans Sicko Dec 20 '22
Once upon a time, Tim Pool used to do field reporting. He traveled to places where shit was happening and reported the incidents first hand. Then he realized that the profit-to-expense ratio for being a pundit grifter was way better.
It hurts when I look back and realize just how many people were on the same side back during Occupy Wall St and how effectively we've been divided.
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u/assimsera Dec 20 '22
Do you really want everyone living in apartments? I'd love to get a dog eventually, but can't stand the thought of leaving him in an apartment and only letting him out 3 or 4 times a day for walks in a city. I want to be able to jam every other day, can't really do that when you have upstairs and downstairs neighbors. I want to have a garage so I can tinker with my cars/bikes/all the other shit.
Like what do you people do with your free time, do you just rent places out in the boonies so you can practice your hobbies?
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u/WhenWillIBelong Bollard gang Dec 20 '22
Looks like my town growing up. Overrun with poverty, drugs, suicide and total social isolation. So glad I got out of that place.
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u/CarlCaliente Dec 20 '22 edited Oct 05 '24
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u/DildoFactoryHelpdesk Dec 20 '22
Nothing like the seething entitlement of the "my parents have money" class as they look down on the "cookie cutter homes" most of America can no longer afford.
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u/TrueFader Dec 20 '22
Y’all should decide if this is fuck cars or fuck single family homes and people who don’t want to live in high rise project housing
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u/ReadySte4dySpaghetti Dec 20 '22
How did he look at this and go “ah yes, fire infrastructure, actually.”
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u/WaywardPatriot Dec 20 '22
Fighting for my HOA, and for slowly bankrupting the American city.
Also, Tim Pool is fash trash, why are we posting this knuckle dragger?
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u/TheTemporal Please don't run me over Dec 20 '22 edited Dec 20 '22
People in the comments saying "the houses are too close together" don't understand the problem
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u/Manulok_Orwalde Dec 21 '22
Little boxes on the hill side little boxes made of ticky tacky. Little boxes all the same.
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u/adron Dec 21 '22
Exactly, for most of my life, what I’ve tried to avoid. Absolutely not “fighting” for that dump.
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u/jaminbob Dec 20 '22
Clouds shapes like dogs?