You prefer city or suburb living?
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City, without a doubt. More walkable, more amenities, more restaurants, more events, more cultural, less homogenous, and less dystopian feeling.
The only benefit with suburbs, strangely enough, has become the amount of space you can get for relatively cheap (in comparison with the urban core), and if you're looking for quality of public schools (quality being the percentage of children whose parents are middle-class and need less resource-attention from the school district).
I was looking at some of the houses in a nearby suburb and for the same price as the 2BDR/1.5 BTH townhouse across the street from me, I could get a 4 BDR/3 BTH house that's 3200 sq ft.
As a guy who grew up working class with too many people in too small of a house (though it was a loving space) - I'm very interested in something like that.
The only benefit with suburbs, strangely enough, has become the amount of space you can get for relatively cheap (in comparison with the urban core), and if you're looking for quality of public schools (quality being the percentage of children whose parents are middle-class and need less resource-attention from the school district).
I was looking at some of the houses in a nearby suburb and for the same price as the 2BDR/1.5 BTH townhouse across the street from me, I could get a 4 BDR/3 BTH house that's 3200 sq ft.
As a guy who grew up working class with too many people in too small of a house (though it was a loving space) - I'm very interested in something like that.
Ezekiel 25:17
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Tough choice.
I need space and I'd rather live in a house, but the burbs seem boring.
The city is loud, crowded, and full of ignorance. Bums walking around, high cost of living, police harassing you, shytty streets, shytty schools.
I need space and I'd rather live in a house, but the burbs seem boring.
The city is loud, crowded, and full of ignorance. Bums walking around, high cost of living, police harassing you, shytty streets, shytty schools.
Ezekiel 25:17
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The city is very dystopia, it's the epicenter of capitalism. Advertisements everywhere, keeping with the joneses, expensive restaurants, bars, and clubs. Lastly high crime and homeless.
is it?I need a balance of both. My parents had both a suburban house and a downtown condo growing up. Suburbs during the week, downtown for the weekend. Trying to get the money right so I can do the same.
As a breh that was in between both city and suburbs, I can say my city friends were more sophisticated and worldly in a way my suburban friends and I were not. They were more artsy, intellectual, and had more unique identities. While we were trying to be carbon copies of one another.
I don't want that for my kids. Definitely want to raise them in the city but have some space where they can stretch out at the end of the week.
As a breh that was in between both city and suburbs, I can say my city friends were more sophisticated and worldly in a way my suburban friends and I were not. They were more artsy, intellectual, and had more unique identities. While we were trying to be carbon copies of one another.
I don't want that for my kids. Definitely want to raise them in the city but have some space where they can stretch out at the end of the week.
The suburbs are the epicenter of capitalism; cheap construction, repetitive architecture, nothing but chain restaurants and businesses, city planning designed to make it as hard to be poor or homeless as possible, neighborhoods designed to ensure only the nuclear family can thrive, no sense of community, virtually no public transportation, often lacking in sidewalks, etc.
Crime is by no stretch of the imagination an urban phenomenon.
Ezekiel 25:17
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If you ask any fan of the dystopian genre or read dystopian literature, they'll tell you it consists of overcrowded cities with people living in cramped apartments.
Do a Google search of dystopian settings. All will bring up the city.
this is not 100% true. Depends on where you're at. There are plenty of "old" suburbs that don't subscribe to that and will not tolerate any of that.
This applies to these new suburban towns that are created in Texas lol
Suburbs are appealing to those that have never experienced anything else or brainwashed into thinking subdivisions and gated communities is “settling down”.
Suburbs are are soul crushing wastelands and historical mistakes driven by the greed of a few industries.
I feel you....as soon as I get back to the city a switch gets flipped....I hate it
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I feel about the same way. I don't go out as much as I used to and if I do go out, its only on the weekends.
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Suburbs are appealing to those that have never experienced anything else or brainwashed into thinking subdivisions and gated communities is “settling down”.
Suburbs are are soul crushing wastelands and historical mistakes driven by the greed of a few industries.
Y'all think suburbs only consist of those new developments. Cookie cutter houses, uniform grass, and no trees. That's not true at all. Soul crushing?
My house would be swagged the fukk out. Wood floors, brick, a fire place, 77in OLED, surround sound, swimming pool, jacuzzi, bifold patio door that opens to the outside
Y'all think suburbs only consist of those new developments. Cookie cutter houses, uniform grass, and no trees. That's not true at all. Soul crushing?
My house would be swagged the fukk out. Wood floors, brick, a fire place, 77in OLED, surround sound, swimming pool, jacuzzi, bifold patio door that opens to the outside
hope you get the house 1 day coli breh.....you know what's really soul crushing? walking out your building and there is human shyt on the sidewalk.