They're not necessarily a bad thing, they're just not ideal. They tend to have massive amounts of parking and cause induced demand and some of the same issues
I live in an old, once-redlined streetcar suburb, and my folks are about a half hour away in a new, nearly-exurban tract home development. They love to see their grandson and are happy to babysit him when my wife and I want a date night, but we've just about stopped taking them up on that offer because every restaurant in a reasonable distance from their neighborhood is some mediocre, mid-market national chain that's utterly devoid of charm, serving plates that have been ruthlessly value-engineered to minimize the need for specialized equipment or skilled talent in the kitchen. The area is quiet, I guess, and I'm sure the land was cheap, but there's no there there.
This country is so ugly. I remember taking my first road trip and realizing America is largely just a freeway exit with a gas station, McDonalds, and several big box stores, all with parking lots large enough to host dozens of football matches.
It's the reason I have little desire to visit other cities in the US. They're all the same. This image represents nearly every population center in the country. George Carlin said it best, America is just one big shopping mall.
Just some advice for others who want to avoid the same experience: The larger the roads, the less interesting the roadsides. Interstate highways were made for getting from big city to big city and are rarely scenic or memorable.
This was shared in !fuckcars for a reason dammit. OP is criticising the car-centric urban layout of those suburban environments, not the people living there.
Oh, is that what they're trying to say, that OP is making fun of the middle class? I thought they were being unhinged and saying that these were things that upper-class white people have and use to view themselves as "superior".
Historically, the ones living in single family suburbs are the classist petty bourgeois. Suburbs were invented by segregationists to price black people out of living in white neighbourhoods.
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